Well, it's really nice to hear from a client how great it is to work with me, and that they want to work with me on another project next year.

chuffed as fuck.

Awesome!

It's good to have a steady job, so at least there's that. It must feel nice when people appreciate you.

Positive feedback really does make a big difference. 🍻

This sounds cheesy but there really is too many people who just assume that the people we work with "already know they are appreciated" and thus never ends up saying flat out compliments like "I like working with you".

At my company we introduced a feedback-initiative (send something to 3 colleagues) and turned out many solid team members were amazed by getting basic positive feedback - they rarely heard that stuff, cause everyone just assumed they knew they were great.