@indigoparadox There's probably a bunch to unpack but you touch on the main one. Life isn't, in total, about just doing what you're asked to - in total that is, but a workplace for the most is. It's a trade of promises.
And we're more than that! So much of life isn't that trade, it's art and love and aid, and entertainment and caring and joy and despair and we get to give all we can to those when we need, when we care to!