>Despite being in the industry a long time, I think most of what I worked on had little to no impact. This is kinda what drove me out of tech a few years back.

>Despite being in the industry a long time, I think most of what I worked on had little to no impact. This is kinda what drove me out of tech a few years back... I could point to tens of millions (at minimum) of people who had used my work. I could point to hundreds of millions in net revenue / cost savings for my employers and clients. But was it "impactful"? IE: was any major world problem solved, or were lives actually made better by my work? Even worse, the three coolest projects I worked on - seriously cool tech, highly scalable, etc - I'm not sure ever really saw the light of day because they were killed by changing business goals. Hard to feel motivated when you know you are doing good work but its all ephemeral.