[JohnFen]

Then what do I do?

I make software to help people solve a problem. It's not meant to be an art piece on display, and it's also not intending to influence them in any way. It's just meant to help them accomplish a task they were already doing, preferably without altering the way they do it.

I guess I do neither art nor design, but engineering.

[Towaway69]

Helping people with software can be very satisfying, especially if there is an immediate positive interaction with those people.

Art can be a lonely business especially if no one understands what you are trying to express.

The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.

[marcosdumay]

> It's just meant to help them accomplish a task they were already doing

That is influencing the world.

[JohnFen]

But a different sort of influencing. I'm not trying to make anyone take a particular action.