I recently retired and I feel so much better than when I was working. I worked to feel the satisfaction of my ego. My ego was so important that I would do a lot of studying and working on technique on my own time. I was able to do things no one else could do or even imagine. This has been going on since college, so it's a habit I've had for fifty years. When outsourcing came along it was sold as "now you will be able to do the fun stuff you have been missing out on". I was already doing the fun stuff and that is the part that got outsourced. The last two years of "work" killed my ego. While ego death is a goal of many spiritual practices, it's not fun at all. I feel very free now. The last time I felt this way was in college when the world was still malleable.