I endured my job and found satisfaction in my leisure hours.
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I found satisfaction in a book by Anthony Burgess called "Ernest Hemingway and His World" (1978), which raised and answered the exact question that gnawed at me.
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While Dr. Siebel, then 230, found satisfaction in helping cancer patients, he felt burdened by the endless administrative tasks that are a part of a modern medical practice.
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Unlike cat and dogs, age was negatively related to satisfaction with rats, meaning that young children found satisfaction in rats that waned as they became older, especially once they passed the age of 17.
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Alecsandri found satisfaction in the advancement of those political causes he had long championed. The two Romanian provinces united and he was appointed minister of External Affairs by Alexandru Ioan Cuza. He toured the West, pleading to some of his friends and acquaintances in Paris to acknowledge the newly formed nation and support its emergence in the turbulent Balkan area.
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Maria Gansevoort Melvill, c. 1815 (mother of Herman Melville, portrait by Ezra Ames, National Gallery of Art Both of Melville's grandfathers were heroes of the Revolutionary War, and Melville found satisfaction in his "double revolutionary descent". Major Thomas Melvill (1751–1832) had taken part in the Boston Tea Party, and his maternal grandfather, General Peter Gansevoort (1749–1812), was famous for having commanded the defense of Fort Stanwix in New York in 1777.
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Abramson decided to stay in Chicago, where for two years following graduation he taught photography as a part-time instructor. He quickly realized that teaching was not his calling, but subsequently found satisfaction in freelance photographery. Throughout his long career, his assignments increasingly came from national news publications, such as Time, Forbes, Newsweek, Business Week, Fortune, & Bloomberg. Notable subjects included Steven Spielberg, Michael Jordan, Ron Howard, Oprah Winfrey, Donald Rumsfeld, Louis Farrakhan, Bill Clinton, and Steve Jobs.
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During the 20th century, as many women became better educated and more able to support themselves, fewer women found satisfaction in the position of being a mistress and were more likely to be in relationships with unmarried men. As divorce became more socially acceptable, it was easier for men to divorce their wives and marry the women who, in earlier years, might have been their mistresses. The practice of having a mistress continued among some married men, especially the wealthy. Occasionally, men married their mistresses.
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He was an active member of the Sheffield Junior Chamber of Commerce of which he was chairman of the Business Affairs committee and editor of The Hub, the chamber's monthly magazine. At the 1963 conference in Tel Aviv of Junior Chamber International he was acknowledged as the editor of the best junior chamber magazine in the world. He moved into the steel industry to write technical reports for Operations Research (OR) scientists. There he found satisfaction in solving production problems, studied OR, mathematics, statistics and computing leading to an external degree from University College London.
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She was required to work from English, French, German, Italian and Russian language sources while she worked as an abstractor for the Drilling and Exploration Bulletin. In 1966 Salmon went on to become the editor of the Refining Bulletin, as well as becoming the editor of an alternate energy sources bulletin. Though she had few published works of her own, Salmon excelled at editing and found satisfaction in her work. Even after her retirement in 1975, including dealing with health issues related to emphysema, Salmon continued to work freelance for the American Petroleum Institute as well as providing services as a translator for the French Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Miniferes.
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Reese, p. 134. On April 1, 1970, Mayor Reese secured for Odessa the first 9-1-1 telephone service in Texas, established through Southwestern Bell. Reese had earlier been alerted to the value of 911 from a constituent, Tommy R. Gregory, who told the mayor about the installation in 1968 of the first such emergency system in the United States in Haleyville in Winston County in northern Alabama.Reese, p. 134"New Emergency Number Scheduled for Odessa," The Odessa American, March 30, 1970, 1-B. Reese earned $100 per month as mayor, having viewed the part-time position like that of a "volunteer" who found satisfaction in civic promotion.
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