What is/was the best thing about your job? As a teacher, mine was having longer holiday days off, summer vacations. and

[ProfessorGAC]

13. Independence

Especially my last 20 years.
The executives had no idea exactly what my department did, and even less about how we did it..
All they knew was we made/saved the company over 10x what it cost to run the group every year, so they left us alone.
Once in a while, something might be causing heartburn on the exec floor that didn't show up as a big deal in the data.
They might then call me and ask if we could look at it. The operative word being "asked".
I didn't take an order for at least 3 decades.