Reading between the lines, it sounds like you're spending a disproportionate amount of effort on low-importance tasks. Don't forget that you're an employee for

Reading between the lines, it sounds like you're spending a disproportionate amount of effort on low-importance tasks. Don't forget that you're an employee for a business. The business sells solutions to customers and your job is to create those solutions (at least, assuming the company hasn't become huge and bloated). Whether or not you're working diligently isn't really of huge importance if you're working on the wrong things.