What is your work ethic? Are you just passing time to get a check or are you proud of your work? The guy painting the lines here wasn’t too interested in good workmanship.
It can be hard to find the meaning in some tasks, but that doesn’t mean you should pass off shoddy product. It reflects on you as a person.
It doesn’t matter if you don’t like the customers, or if you can’t stand the boss. In the long run, if you don’t take pride in your own actions, you have nothing. It should be important to you to do a good job. It isn’t to impress anyone. It isn’t to get a raise. It isn’t to win a contest, or to keep out of trouble. Of corse, good work might get you some of things too.
It’s to give yourself a sense of self-worth. If you know that what you do is done to the best of your ability, then no matter what criticism you receive you can rest assured that you are okay. They are the ones with the problem. And someday, you won’t return to the scene of your work and notice that you did a really crappy job. I wonder if this guy had to go back and fix his painting?
So true. Even if you do not like your job try to make it fun and take pride in anything you do. This way you feel like you did something worth while instead of nothing at all.