Sisyphus angered the gods. The gods punished Sisyphus by condemning him to push a large rock up a hill endlessly. Each time he pushed the rock near the top of the hill, it would roll back down to the bottom.
As you can easily understand, this routine was both tiring and boring, a lot like working for a large corporation. Meaningless, it seemed. But Sisyphus managed to make the job more interesting, less tiring, and quite profitable. He gave it meaning. Every time he got to the top of the hill, he filled his pockets with soil and walked down to resume his task.
Sisyphus repeated this procedure for many years. The hill got smaller and smaller as he removed the soil. Eventually, there was no more hill. The curse of the gods was lifted, for he could not roll the rock up a hill that no longer existed.
Moreover, Sisyphus had managed to earn a substantial bonus from his labors. He had collected a huge amount of soil from the former hill, thousands of tons in fact. He proceeded to market the dirt to farmers, gardeners, and developers as "the finest topsoil in the world." He made a vast fortune peddling dirt. Eventually, he became a billionaire, then a trillionaire, and even bankrolled the gods.
One must imagine Sisyphus happy. Not from rolling the rock up the hill, but by walking back down without it, pockets full of soil.
Apologies to Albert Camus and the Greek Mythologists
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