How do I take pride in doing every job right?

You do every connection right because lives ride on it, and you have come to feel that care as the dignity of your trade, not a burden laid on it. That is a rare and solid place to stand. Your pride is not in being praised or in getting done fast. It is in knowing the work is sound, whether or not anyone ever looks. This is what separates a craftsman from someone who merely holds the tools. The craftsman's standard comes from inside, from an unwillingness to leave work they would not trust themselves. You have made the invisible parts of the job matter as much as the visible ones, and that is exactly where real dignity lives. Protect that pride by keeping it personal. Let your measure be your own honest verdict on the work, not the customer's rushed approval or the next job waiting. At the end of each one, ask quietly whether it is truly right. When you can answer yes, you carry something no shortcut ever pays for, the quiet self-respect of a job well made.