The day has to be going somewhere
Your Venus wears Sagittarius and works out of the 6th house, so the ordinary working day is bearable only when it is part of something larger. Tasks that connect to nothing drain you at a rate colleagues find hard to credit, and you cannot conceal it well.
Give you a purpose you believe in and you will do the dullest parts of it cheerfully for years. Remove the purpose and the same tasks become genuinely unendurable within a month, which is why your working life divides so sharply into good periods and impossible ones.
Easy with colleagues, and not very careful
You are warm, funny and open at work, and you say things in the corridor that a more political person would not. People like you enormously and some of it gets repeated. Keep the openness and pick two subjects to be permanently discreet about, since your natural setting has no filter at all.
Process for its own sake is unbearable
Procedures that exist because they have always existed provoke a genuine impatience in you, and you will simply route around them. Sometimes that is exactly right and sometimes the procedure was load-bearing. Ask what it is for before ignoring it, since you have been correct often enough to have stopped checking.
The body wants to be outdoors
Your physical wellbeing depends on air, daylight and movement more than on anything else you could do, and an indoor sedentary stretch reaches you as low mood rather than as stiffness. Treat outdoor time as a working requirement. It is the single most effective adjustment available and it is entirely free.
You leave rather than negotiate
When a job stops working your instinct is to go, quickly and completely, rather than to try to change it from inside. That decisiveness has served you and it has also cost you positions that were fixable. Have one conversation before deciding, since you rarely have it and it occasionally changes everything.
They have to understand why the work matters
A partner who treats your job as merely a job will gradually become somebody you cannot talk to about most of your week. You do not need them to share the vocation; you need them to take it seriously. Say that plainly and early, since from outside your commitment looks like overwork rather than like the thing it actually is to you.
You bring your enthusiasms home
Whatever has caught you at work arrives in the household in full, with plans attached, and your family has learned to wait and see which ones last. That is affectionate and slightly tiring for them. Say when something is an idea rather than a decision, since they cannot currently tell the difference and have stopped trying.
You need the day to change shape
A working week identical to the last one costs you something no salary compensates for, and you begin sabotaging it in small ways well before you admit that is what is happening. Build the variation into the arrangement itself: different rooms, different tasks, an actual reason to leave the building. That is structural rather than a matter of preference.
Enthusiasm followed by a hard stop
You take up something new with total commitment, overdo it within a fortnight, and then abandon it entirely rather than scaling back. The abandoning is the real problem. Halve whatever you were going to start with, since a version you can keep doing beats a version that produced three excellent weeks and nothing since.
Colleagues you genuinely like
Your working friendships are warm and easily made, and they mostly evaporate when the job changes because they existed in the building rather than between the people. Pick two per job to convert deliberately, with an arrangement in the calendar within a month of leaving, since otherwise they all quietly disappear.