How about a different perspective? Forget happiness. Period. Think in terms of satisfaction, satisfaction for a job (as in a project) well done, and then conti

How about a different perspective? Forget happiness. Period. Think in terms of satisfaction, satisfaction for a job (as in a project) well done, and then continue on to another project; all the while enjoying the work, the process of doing and making and shipping, including the failures, and not the outcomes/results? And forget a life-work balance, but integrating both. “The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both. ”