Do you need to see the results of your work? What about your work satisfies you?

I always see the results of my efforts within a few days at the most. It is sometimes rewarding, but often I see a way I could have improved things so to avoid frustration I seldom look.

I do see the results of my work.I won’t sell it until I am happy with the results.I am a perfectionist with my paintings,especially.It is a very good feeling to have someone like the work you put your heart and soul into enough to buy it and take it home:) I have had some nice reactions to it and it is always humbling :)

I don’t always see the results of my work right away. Often, after I prescribe something, a person will leave the office and not come back for a few months. Sometimes, given the nature of the patient population I see, I don’t definitely cure anything (e.g. diabetes), but just fight a battle to keep someone as stable as possible.

Mostly, I enjoy the human contact aspect of my work. I used to be only in research, and started going crazy writing grants all day, with nothing but my computer and the 4 walls of my office to talk to. :-)

In my line of work positive ROI is the result of a job well done, so when I come in and see my accounts are making money I am quite satisfied. Although the days I lose money are usually spent hiding from the boss.

I worked for a number of years in a support role in a call center, which was work I was very good at, but it drove me a little batty never having a physical result. I also did support work later in an architectural firm, and even though I wasn’t personally building things, it helped to see that there was a physical product that “we” built at the end. I find that working with my hands, with wood, or fabric is very cathartic because of the visible progress, and similar (although different too) is making music.

When I have put seeds in my greenhouse and see them grow and flower, when I have made a meal for my family and they make positive comments about how much they have enjoyed it. When I have groomed and bathed my dogs and they wag their tails and run around like puppies.

In my paid work I always get a thankyou, which is reward in itself.

All too often, concerning my personal artwork, I finish it to my own satisfaction, and then hide it away for no one to see. It is, and was, for myself. Perhaps one day I will share. Perhaps not.

Everything else is for clients. I can’t hide that away. Even if nothing is said about it, I know I gave it all I had to give. That alone is enough reward. When the check shows up in the mail, I get further confirmation. When the client calls back for a new job, I get further confirmation. I don’t really like getting it though. I just wish they’d shut up and let me do my work.

When they do compliment, and I’m forced to acknowledge that compliment, I must ask them “What is it you like about it?” I usually hate the answers I get.

Needless to say, being a police officer has its rewarding days. to apprehend and testify against the bad guys makes the lousy salary all worthwhile.

One incident, in particular, made me actually see the fruits of my employment. it involved a teenage boy that went on a spree of burglarizing homes, because of the loss of his brother.

He and his brother were riding in their dads van. it was a hot summer day and they left the side van door open, while driving back home from a ballgame in the park. brother accidentially fell out of the opened van door and was killed. his dad made the comment. “why did it have to be him? why couldn’t it have happened to you”. i was amazed at this comment to his surviving son. shortly, after the surviving son started to burglarize several homes in his neighborhood. i was a CID detective at that time and my gut feeling knew this was him. after a long discussion, he confessed to three burlaries in his neighborhood. i talked to the victims and explained the situation to them. all victims agreed to allow this person go to a boys camp, instead of prison. this he did.

Three years later, i was at a bowling alley and someone tapped me on my shoulder. it was him. he introduced me to his wife and two children. he thanked me for the action i took in his behalf. this made my whole year.

Its rare to see the ends results of a situation in police work, but this was the exception to the rule and it made me feel proud that maybe i did something right in this situation.

Yes, the results of my work are tangible and very rewarding.

I am in partnership in a home staging and interior design biz.

Going into an empty house and transforming it into a beautiful and well decorated ‘home.’

It is hard work, choosing all the right pieces, floor coverings, artwork, accents.

Endless trips to our storage units and last minute shopping for just the right, whatever. lol

The most challenging aspect is the type of job such as the one I am working on the later part of this week, going into an occupied home and re-purposing and adding to whats already there for a re-vamp and new look.

My partner and I insist on working in solitude and so the owners are banished, literally, for several days so the final unveiling has punch.

It is joyful to see the look on peoples faces when they walk into the finished ‘product’ or, especially, the open houses when many come through.

Our last home sold the day of the open house, literally 3 people all counter offering and coming in at well over the asking price.

It’s a great job, incorporates artistic talent, creativity, and the smiles and laughs and high 5’s are a dime a dozen…..nothing is more rewarding than creating beauty and those priceless moments when it has all come together and we do the final walk through beaming at another ‘impossible’ job that has come together.

I usually see the results of my work and even have copies of some products. I am a designer. I don’t always know whether they were effective, whether the sale of items was more successful because of ads and mailers, whether the exhibit taught junior high school kids something about WWII, whether the website attracted a new customer to book a professional appointment.
I also find fulfillment in getting that avocado seed to sprout or in making a really good batch of hummus or tabouli. Those too are tangible.
What I don’t get any fulfillment from is seeing the laundry clean and folded again or the floors shiny again—don’t get me wrong, I like that they are, but it just doesn’t ring my bell.

I need results
I need external validation
To show me that it’s worth it
Worth my time and energy
Something good must come

This is why I like my art..it’s there at the end…it speaks to me…it tells me my story and shows me how clever and beautiful I am.

My job is to help my Autistic Son. Yes I need to see results.
People with so called normal young Adults have no clue how fortunate they are.
I thank the lord and everyone who helps us every day. I am grateful for every little improvement.
I don’t complain about every little imperfection in life. I am sicked by those who do.

I’m a language teacher. My job is, ultimately, all about outcomes – if someone doesn’t improve, then I have to look at what I’m doing in the classroom.

One of the most rewarding aspects of my job is teaching beginners – it’s a great feeling when someone leaves a ‘class’ knowing how to achieve something that they couldn’t do before.

It ain’t the money

Yes. I’m such a visual person. I need gratification—instant or delayed. I need to feel I created something that will last, something tangible for the invisible work and effort and time I put into it.

I do quite a bit of writing and design, as a hobby. Printing it out is the most gratifying thing in the world for me.

I’m a doctor who works in a critical care unit. The work I do is pretty immediate—either people get better or they don’t. In direct answer to your question, I don’t have a need to see the results of my work, but I usually do anyway.

I enjoy knowing that my work is doing some good. When I worked as an account clerk, it was my job to pay the bills. That is very satisfying to pay bills all day with other people’s money and get paid for it.

I work at a school with kids with behavior/emotional problems, and there are many days that you feel like you’ve accomplished nothing. But then there are those days when something positive happens that reminds you of why you do what you do, and those moments remind me of why I want to work in this field.

Oh my God!!!! This morning I heard on the radio that Vermont is close to enacting single payer. That is one of the first states I did a single payer economic impact analysis for! Maybe my work wasn’t for naught, after all! Could it be true? Cross your fingers.

Forgive my ignorance, @wundayatta , but what is “single player”?

single payer not player. It’s a way of financing health care reform that extends coverage to everyone while reducing the costs. It also gets rid of the health insurance industry, so you can imagine why it is so hard to pass. Not to mention, most people are under the delusion that there is competition in the health insurance industry, or that what little competition there is actually reduces spending.

Thank you, @wundayatta for explaining that…I meant to type payer, not sure what kind of Freudian slip “player” was-maybe all the talk of instruments on the other page, lol!