My job feels meaningless.
You're not alone. Let's uncover why and make work work.
💔"I'm a therapist. So much of my meaningful work is mitigating the mental turmoil caused by this system of meaningless work."🖥️I basically stare at my monitor 6 hrs a day because for 2 hrs a day I do something that's too difficult for the average person.😞"I was happier as a janitor than as the office worker I am now."🍕"We make pizza boxes. All my hard work goes straight to a dumpster when the consumer is done eating their pizza."
I research when work feels pointless, and I help organizations address it.
I've talked to +700 people.
Most didn’t say “my job is meaningless.” They didn’t need to. It showed up in the language:
“It’s meetings and reporting, not real work.”
“I don’t know who this helps.”
“If I stopped, nothing would change.”
“I don’t know who benefits.”
“My calendar is full, my progress isn’t.”
Blaz Abe, PhD candidate
Meaninglessness is not a lack of ambition or motivation.
It’s a mismatch: between a person’s values, skills, identity, and expectations, and what their job rewards, demands, and makes possible.When the work is incongruent, people stop seeing themselves in what they do and start performing tasks as compliance.
Calibrate work to the person, and the person to the work.
I identify where roles and systems create misfit, then translate findings into targeted changes in job design, coordination, and management practices.