You have arrived at the right site. Though, there used to be many articles posted here to motivate people to break away from golden handcuffs. I suggest you try

You have arrived at the right site. Though, there used to be many articles posted here to motivate people to break away from golden handcuffs. I suggest you try to find a way to cut down on working hours that works financially for you, to kick-start some side-business of your own. Make something that you will keep and own. Preferably something you can get a passive income from. Experience a warm fuzzy feeling when you realize that you are actually doing profitable stuff without being at a big slow company with meetings and otherwise uncreative work culture. This side-business phase is where I am at. I can attest to a different mood about salary slavery after getting to it. I know I'll never become rich on a salary. I need work to be more than a trade of hours of my life for money. While I am at work I need to learn new things. While I am at work I need to take the responsibility myself for making my future workdays less painful since I'll hang around for an unknown time. The consequences of feeling I can give my workplace the finger and work full-time on my project to make it on my own, is that at work I automate the tedious tasks, I take a more active role in improving business processes that I see quality flaws in. I put in the extra effort to streamline things so that my coming workdays can be spent on things I don't feel is beneath me. So who knows, maybe this will work out with me getting a better work career even if my side-project doesn't work out, that it was just a catalyst for me to realize I'm responsible for my own work situation not sucking. I hope my projects do work out though. :)