I'm in a similar boat. How did I start to change? I thought long and hard about what was important, not just for myself, but for the world, for everything. I lo

I'm in a similar boat. How did I start to change? I thought long and hard about what was important, not just for myself, but for the world, for everything. I looked for the most important thing that I could possibly work on. (For me that turned out to be AI). After that all my day-dreams of things I could be doing circled back to "but that's not as important as AI so get back to work." Then I found a community of people who were doing what I wanted to be doing. I quit my well paying job and did a short series of internships (one paid, one unpaid) at companies in these communities. I got in by learning as much as I could as fast as I could, caring deeply and honestly about the work these places were doing, and interviewing well. One led to a job where I worked for 2 years. In this new community I was able to build skills and connections that gave me the confidence to break out on my own when the company started to diverge from my Most-Important-Thing-In-The-World. I'm now working on my own start-up. It doesn't have customers or a product yet, but even if I don't 'make it' with this one I am doing every day, and making things with my own hands, and it's an incredible feeling. You can do it too. If I can help just drop me a line. (Contact info in profile)