The job gets your hours. It doesn’t get your whole identity as a bonus.

Work takes a defined number of hours and then quietly asks for more: your self-image, your mood at dinner, your answer to who you are. That trade is rarely stated, so it happens by drift. What you sold was time, and the rest was never part of the deal.

Notice how you answer when somebody asks what you do. If the job is the only sentence available, add one more thing this week that is true about you and has nothing to do with earning. Keep it going when work is busy, especially then.