[MaxPengwing]

You can find jobs that have great tangible impact on the world and society. You just cant get paid 200K a year doing that. Unless you're in defence industry, but I get the feeling that kinetic impact was not what you were looking for.

Problem with programmer recruitment is, imho, that Programmers have been sold this ideal that they are "Rockstars" that swoop in like super heros to save companies. Which is just not what programmers are today. Programmers, are the new industrial workers.

Better paid in most cases though.

I think if you have a lot of downtime, you should see if your company has a philanthropic department, and then volunteer to do help out thought it.

Salesforce where I work, has a pro bono projects portal for any NGO's that have Salesforce and need volunteers to help out. Sure you will not find complicated large projects, but the impact of just making a custom dashboard, report, or help create a mail campaign has actual real world impact.