Do you feel challenged at all by your current work? I feel like that's a big piece of it for me. Not necessarily the overall mission but just the moment-to-moment I've done basically the same thing a thousand times before.
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#12From personal experience and that of close friends if work was fine before usually there is something bigger going on.
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#13Use your available mind power to work on your own projects on the side. So many people in the world don't have the opportunity that you do.
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#14> It is about the meaning of work at all. The point of it. Why it exists at all. Because someone finds value in the work you do.
but I don't find it valuable for myself. At all. I feel completely empty.
And with the inevitable AI revolution just around the corner, many non-tech jobs (mostly all) will be obsolete. You will still have a job.
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#19> It is about the meaning of work at all. The point of it. Why it exists at all. Because someone finds value in the work you do.
but I don't find it valuable for myself. At all. I feel completely empty.
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#20Other than work, are you happy with your life? From personal experience and that of close friends if work was fine before usually there is something bigger going on.
That being said, I strongly believe a meaningful work supplant this somehow. Yeah, maybe I am too pretentious or just trying to cover the sun with two fingers.