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but I don't find it valuable for myself. At all. I feel completely empty.

• jj109 8y ago
  You are focusing on the wrong things. You are so lucky to feel "empty". If you take some time to think about how hard people work just for a pittance, how they work physically demanding and mentally-stressing jobs that pay little to nothing, you can't help but be grateful for your situation. And with the inevitable AI revolution just around the corner, many non-tech jobs (mostly all) will be obsolete. You will still have a job.
• badpun 8y ago
  The value is the paycheck.
• yasp 8y ago
  You need to find meaning in your life. For many people the work and the paycheck are a means to an end, not an end unto itself.
• AnimalMuppet 8y ago
  To kind of expand on what yast said: You don't find value, meaning, or identity from work. You find it in other people valuing you - specific people, people you know face-to-face. Having faceless "users" valuing your website doesn't cut it. Even your boss isn't (usually) enough, because you don't have the right kind of relationship with your boss. That said, you also need work that you find meaningful. If you try to find your meaning in work, you're doomed, because work can't fill that need in you, but work you find meaningless is soul-destroying. So you also need work that you find more interesting/fulfilling. Just don't hang your whole identity on it.