An unfair workplace costs you more than a hard one
Sun in Libra lands in your 6th house, so the fairness of your daily working life affects you more than the workload does. You can carry a heavy job cheerfully and you cannot function in one where the rules apply unevenly. You need work with visible fairness in how it is run.
That is a genuine criterion rather than a delicate one, and it is worth applying when you choose employers. Ask how decisions get made and who is exempt, because those answers predict your next three years better than the job description does.
You work better with somebody else in it
Your output rises noticeably when there is a colleague to think alongside, and solitary tasks take longer and cost more. That is not a deficiency, it is a specification. Arrange the day accordingly: pair on the difficult work, and where you must work alone, book a short conversation at the end to close it.
Accommodating everybody all day
You adjust to each person you deal with, and by five o clock you have made several hundred small accommodations nobody counted. That is the real source of the tiredness rather than the tasks. Build recovery around it: a genuine break with no one in it, and one part of the day that runs entirely on your own terms.
The disagreement you took home instead
Rather than object in the moment, you go along with it and then carry the objection for a fortnight. It costs you far more than the awkwardness would have. Practise the mild in-the-room version: I would do it differently, here is why. Delivered calmly by somebody with your manner, it lands as contribution rather than conflict.
Ask for the conditions you need
You will request improvements on behalf of a colleague long before you request one for yourself, and the things you need are usually modest and easily granted. Write down the three conditions that would make your working life better, and ask for them in one conversation as a set rather than raising them individually over years.
Choose the culture, then the role
Your effectiveness depends on the fairness and civility of the setting to an unusual degree, which makes the interview a two-way assessment. Ask how disagreements get handled and what happens when somebody senior turns out to be wrong. Those two answers predict your experience of the job more reliably than the salary band or the title does.
The cost of a hundred small adjustments
Accommodating people all day produces a tiredness that has nothing to do with effort, and it accumulates across a week rather than a day. Protect one unstructured hour where nobody needs anything from you. Twenty minutes alone restores more than a longer break spent with colleagues, which is simply more of the same work in a different room.
Colleagues you genuinely like
A large part of what makes work bearable for you is the people, and you invest properly in those relationships. It also means a difficult colleague costs you disproportionately. Address the friction directly and early rather than routing around it for two years, which is your default and the more expensive option.
Paid the same as the person beside you
What matters to you is parity rather than maximisation, and an unexplained gap will bother you long after the money stops mattering. Find out the actual numbers rather than assuming. If the gap is real, make the case on the basis of comparability, which is the argument you can deliver without discomfort.
Objecting in the room
The practice available here is registering disagreement at the time, in public, in a form you can live with. It is not confrontation and it does not need to be loud. One mild sentence, said in the meeting rather than in the corridor afterwards, changes what a decade of working life feels like. Start with something you do not much care about, so that the first attempt costs nothing.