Most men in the workforce (with some exceptions of course) just want to get their paycheck and go home. It's the women who turn jobs into an ego thing.
All the problems at home and life are solved by a pat on the head by the bosses. Their whole life is based on that approval. Then one day they die, never having done anything all their lives but work for a pat on the head.
Men do not work that way, they work for money, they work because they like what they do, but they never work to please anyone but themselves and their pocket.