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1. Do you think you work harder than your peers, about the same, or less hard?
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I work less hard than my peers. I try to work smarter. I have a peer that painstakingly manually compared two spreadsheets once a month. It often took several days. I spent a couple of hours and wrote a quick and dirty Access database that I imported the spreadsheets into and did the comparisons in seconds. My method was both MUCH faster and more accurate.
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2. Do you think you do a better job, and equal job, or a worse job than is done by most of your peers?
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I think that I do a better job. See the example above.
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3. If you think your work ethic is good, what drives you toward same? What's important about doing a good job? Pride? Money?
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What motivates me? Pride, laziness, money, and not getting fired.
In my example above, laziness motivated me to write an access database because I had no desire to manually compare thousands of rows. Doing it faster and getting a better result were side benefits.
Because I automate so much of my job, I often find myself with little to do, while my peers are often super busy and getting less work done. I try to find things to fill the gaps, but sometimes I fail.