Most of any sense of reward has to be self-generated. Oh, dang, another report of something awful.
Life is ridiculous.
The stupidest things occur and you just have to laugh - or you'd cry. It helps to have a well-developed sense of how irony rules the universe, I guess. We have fun at work, at my little Comm Center. During National Telecommunicators Week, a local newspaper reporter spent a couple of hours watching the dispatchers take calls, dispatch 'em, talk about 'em and move on to the next ring of the telephone or radio transmission. She was there to write a piece about our Dispatcher of the Year and the resulting article was a really nice bit of positive and informative reporting.