You are employed on a job in which you repeat the same simple task every fifteen seconds, perhaps wiring plugs for lamps, 9.00 a.m. until 5.30 p.m., every day (with a lunch break), five days a week. Describe your emotional response to this work. Is it inevitable that some jobs just have to be like this, given the nature of work and technology, and the need to keep quality high and costs low?