At the end of your career, what will you value?

I once -- way back in the day -- wrote a post about how much people connect their self-worth to their job, and that might be a small corollary to what I'm about to discuss here. It's this big concept: you spend a lot of your working life chasing, for lack of a better term, deliverables. These are short-term assignments/projects, and you get down in the …