rewarding

The article is about how parenting is stressful but (ultimately) rewarding, and you're surprised that the author of it finds parenting stressful but (ultimately) rewarding?

As someone who is writing a real-time 3d engine, let me tell you the experience is incredibly rewarding.

And that is what made it so rewarding when you found something new or finally beat a boss.

Wage or not, that job can become real rewarding, especially once you are the humiliated and terrified parent.

Did you expect she'd find it not stressful, or that she'd find it not rewarding?

Employment in a startup can be very rewarding, but it needs to be mutually beneficial.

She did this because the pound-złoty exchange rate made this work more financially rewarding than anything she could have done in Poland.

One more part of the reason is that they usually build the homes themselves, and its rewarding to see the house go up brick by brick - visual progress is being made.

Sure you will be employed for years fixing hack upon hack, but its not very rewarding work (in the non financial sense).

Avoiding clickbait and rewarding actual quality is the point of the simple rating system.

It's super rewarding and changes lives (most of the time) in a great way.

I guess you can claim that the feeling that it's rewarding is a false rationalization, but...

But each death, each failure brings with it new knowledge about how the game works and so when you finally do "make progress" it's because you gained understanding through effort and that's much more rewarding.

"You only think it's rewarding, but it's not!".