You’re not being paid to like your work. - Wesley Chu

Son, you hungry?" Roen said, coming up behind him. "I found this pizza joint a few blocks away. It's French pizza—" he made a face "—but French pizza's better than no pizza. Interested?

When someone asked Roen what he did, he explained that he typed incoherent commands that performed virtual tasks to create intangible objects. At the end of the day, Roen wasn’t sure what he did or why he did it—just that every two weeks, he received a paycheck for the hours of his life wasted, building these imaginary things on some server located somewhere.

Fate is created, not ordained.