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by imd23 2953 days ago
but I don't find it valuable for myself. At all. I feel completely empty.
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To kind of expand on what yast said:

You don't find value, meaning, or identity from work. You find it in other people valuing you - specific people, people you know face-to-face. Having faceless "users" valuing your website doesn't cut it. Even your boss isn't (usually) enough, because you don't have the right kind of relationship with your boss.

That said, you also need work that you find meaningful. If you try to find your meaning in work, you're doomed, because work can't fill that need in you, but work you find meaningless is soul-destroying. So you also need work that you find more interesting/fulfilling. Just don't hang your whole identity on it.

You need to find meaning in your life. For many people the work and the paycheck are a means to an end, not an end unto itself.
The value is the paycheck.