Have you ever asked yourself what you are working for? If you have ever had the time to (1)....... this taboo question, or put it to others in moment of weakness or confidentiality, you (2)..........well have heard some or all of the (3)....... It’s the money of course, some say with a smile, as if explaining something to a small child. Or it’s the satisfaction of (4).........well done, the sense of achievement behind the clinching of an important (5)......... I worked as a bus conductor once, and I can’t say I (6)........the same as I staggered along the swaying gangway trying to (7).........out tickets without falling over into someone’s lap. It’s the company of other people perhaps, but if that is the (8)........., what about farmers? It is the conservation in the farmyard that keeps them captivated by the job? Work is power and a sense of status say those (9)............ have either attained these elusive goals, or feel aggrieved that nobody has yet recognized their leadership (10).........Or we can blame it all on someone else, the family or the taxman. I suspect, and say this under my (11)........, that most of us work rather as Mr. Micawber lived, hoping for something to (12)....up. We’ll win the pools, and tell the boss what we really think. We’ll scrape together the (13).......... and open that little shop we always dreamed of, or go (14).......the world, or spend more time in the garden. Once day we’ll get that (15)...........we deserve, but until then at least we have something to do. And we are so busy doing it that we won’t have time to wonder why.