I guess it all comes down to either fulfill your sense of purpose through work or not. I've seen different degrees of employee engagement and I don't think either of them is wrong. From people that pretty much live to work and 75% of their lives revolve around their job, people that does a little bit more of what they're paid for and the ones that do the job description checklist only according to the salary they were offered. I'm in the last group of these, not because I like being ordinary in the work environment, but because I've found and accepted that corporations do not practice meritocracy and everyone, from the CEO to the smallest paycheck share one common goal only: produce value for the shareholders, regardless of everything else. So, a job for me is merely a way to produce income while my personal purpose lays everywhere else but there. I do what's necessary and no more.