I am in a similar position (22 years old). I have been "coping" by working on machine learning projects on the side in the area that I have determined gives me

I am in a similar position (22 years old). I have been "coping" by working on machine learning projects on the side in the area that I have determined gives me a lot of meaning (teaching AIs to learn correlations between diet and autoimmune diseases). I do this and trial it with my friends who have AI issues, and work normally during the day putting all the discipline I can into just focusing and doing good work for the 9-5 I am expected to. Hopefully, eventually, I can spin off my work project and/or one of my side projects will get traction. I should have enough capital to live off my investments/retire and work on harder, more interesting/long term problems for the rest of my life in about five years. Put in those terms, it is not as hard to keep grinding.