I feel like you've assembled a group of criteria (some of which are mutually exclusive) and trying to make a job fit all of them. I wish you luck in thst, but i

I feel like you've assembled a group of criteria (some of which are mutually exclusive) and trying to make a job fit all of them. I wish you luck in thst, but it may help you to identify them to understand what to compromise on. Significance. You don't want to be a cog in a machine. Since it's easy to find significance outside of work, and since almost no work is significant this may be the easiest to recalibrate. You want job security with high pay. This comes with working at large companies. They're less likely to go under. With some luck you can avoid the regular culls. These jobs require zero creativity (and likely oppose creativity. ) Creativity is risky. Because what you create may have value, or not. If you need to be creative, that's also easy to do outside work. Take up painting, music, pottery, whatever. You're still young. Understand that most of the work you do over the next 40 years will just be work. It can supply money. It can be made "secure". But dont expect your work to give you significance (find that elsewhere), don't expect your work to satisfy your creative urges (find that elsewhere.) Life is more than work. Figure out what you want in life and do multiple things to satisfy those goals. Don't place the burden on work satisfying them all. That route typically does not reduce well.