[2457013579]

This hit home for me as well. I’m currently at a large company and looking for a smaller one where I can work more hours Thor the same money doing something more meaningful. I have a min/max mindset, probably like most people here, so it took me a long time to come to the realization that working longer hours for the same pay was a good thing.

[fy20]

The grass is not always greener. Plenty of small companies are also meaningless and have their own set of problems in different ways. Beuracracy is often replaced with toxic management.

[ethbr0]

If there's one underappreciated metric today, it's "quality of hour worked." I.e. how productive did you feel about an hour of your work, today?

Track that over time. Make radical changes if it starts plummeting, because otherwise you're going to be backfilling entire teams' worth of vacated roles.

[jokethrowaway]

Eventually you'll figure out it's all meaningless, no matter if it's big or small.

Find something that you enjoy doing, like you would enjoy a nice puzzle.

Purpose is all in your head.