I've had a 20 year career spanning 15 companies and in retrospect none of the work I did for any of those companies strikes me as meaningful. In most cases, if

I've had a 20 year career spanning 15 companies and in retrospect none of the work I did for any of those companies strikes me as meaningful. In most cases, if the work had not been done, project not implemented, things would have carried on regardless with no one much affected either way. Some large companies might have spent money differently - that's all. My current contract is in the running for least meaningful ever. If the entire long running project I'm a part of didn't exist, the only effect would be that the people who work on it would work elsewhere. The 400,000 users would actually gain time that they are currently obliged to spend using what this project offers. I have a few side projects in the creative writing space that added real value for real users over the past 15 years and probably changed and improved the way they worked, so there was meaning there, but that's pretty much in the past now. I'm currently working on some dev tools for the healthcare sector - a side project that I have high hopes for - and if that completes I feel it has the potential to be meaningful and add real value down the chain to the lives of real people.