This is me. At my last job I was doing 3 jobs at once. 1 was what people THOUGHT my actual job was (gotta support the old system to buy myself enough time to ro

This is me. At my last job I was doing 3 jobs at once. 1 was what people THOUGHT my actual job was (gotta support the old system to buy myself enough time to roll out the new system, 1 was an additional job to get promoted/salary brought up to industry standards (risk manager for health tech., it didn't work), and 1 (what I was actually hired for 2+ years ago) was doing a rewrite properly to solve 50% of the engineering problems plaguing the company for near a decade once and for all (got it to 99% completion, but has been stuck in QA and Compliance hell for 8 months now on legacy features that are 1 out of 1 million requests). Oh but I accidentally did job #1 too well so now the rewrite I originally got hired to do is now not a priority on anyone's mind. Oh and I did job #2 so well that now I am getting daily requests from Compliance, and they are acting like my boss, as if the Architect, PM, overstepping and undertrained CS reps. and actual boss wasn't enough. Ok now I'm just venting at this point but it's therapeutic. I feel as though I've aged 10 years in the past 2 and I burned out very bad 4 months ago, still haven't recovered. Unemployed now. The worst part? I'm not sure I'm not going to try it again. Should I accept "mediocraty"? Should I strive to leverage my abilities to the fullest to truly be transformative in technology? Maybe I should just focus on getting "fuck you" money so I can work for free on things that actually have an impact.