I've sort of just accepted it. I work in a niche position in a software company that's in a niche sector and while people do depend on me for their livelyhoods, I wouldn't say the products I produce are, in the grand scheme of things, meaningful. What I do only exists as a job in the 20th and 21st centuries and humans got on just fine before that.

I instead find meaning in my hobbies and out of work activities. My job, while pretty meaningless in my mind, does pay me enough to allow me to have a good life outside of work. I don't need my job to be meaningful, I just need it to not suck.

[–] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

What I do only exists as a job in the 20th and 21st centuries and humans got on just fine before that.

And your job is probably severely threatened by AI just like every other job out there. Hopefully humans will get on just fine after that, too.

[–] jherazob@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Same here