Do you feel like your job is ‘meaningful’?

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Funky_monkey2026@reddit

Sort of, but it's also demoralising. I spend a lot of my time doing mass imports for benefits, especially with kids of parents. It's good that they're getting an education, but a lot of the parents CAN work but chose not to, at the expense of the tax payer. We then wonder why the NHS has gone down the pan.

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theotherquantumjim@reddit

Lol no. My life though…also no.

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petrolstationpicnic@reddit

Yes and no, I run the food operations for a coffee company, but at ground level, i’m a cook. We have a neighbourhood cafe that hundreds of people come through every day, was a lifeline to so many in lockdown, I’ve seen customers get pregnant and now am getting to know their kids, seeing the joy a piece of cake or cookie brings them. I’ve made loads of celebration cakes for peoples birthdays/weddings etc, saved countless hangovers with breakfasts and caffeine. It doesn’t feel meaningful until I think about it like this.

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retailface@reddit

Feeding people is very meaningful in my eyes. Everybody needs food to survive, but I feel that making food for someone is a very caring, intimate thing. I have loads of respect for chefs and cooks at all levels. (Apart from Salt Bae. He's just a twat.)

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hadawayandshite@reddit

It can be. I remember one of the kids I teach telling me her part time job ‘wasn’t anything important’ as she was a waitress in a restaurant I went for the old ‘no small parts just small actors’ There are people who’ve spent their hard earned money when times are tight to go and get a meal to help relax/spend time with a loved one after a shitty day at work or whatever…and she’s a big part of them having a good experience

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Accurate_Prompt_8800@reddit

I think this is really sweet for what it’s worth, the way in which you described it :)

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petrolstationpicnic@reddit

It’s what keeps me in the low paid, low prospects hospitality industry!

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Jimathay@reddit

>I \[work\] for a coffee company >at ground level I hope that was intentional phrasing

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petrolstationpicnic@reddit

I wish it wasn’t, I’m being forced against my will into corporate speak

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Wallygonk@reddit

Think its just the way he Espresso's himself

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JennyW93@reddit

I used to have a very objectively meaningful job - I worked as a clinical brain scientist on various projects, including national clinical guidelines for dementia diagnosis, establishing new clinics for people at risk of dementia and stroke, and working on clinical trials for dementia drugs. It was meaningful, but it wasn’t rewarding. I now work in strategic planning at a university. It’s much less meaningful, but much more rewarding. The stuff I do now has an immediate or near-future impact, whereas the stuff I used to work on is the kind of thing that might have an impact (admittedly a large one) a few years or generations down the line. I guess I’m more driven by tangible results, and didn’t find the work I used to do worth the sacrifices I had to make to do it.

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Lambchops87@reddit

As someone who used to do early stage drug discovery research (on the medicinal chemistry side) but has spent the last few years on either assessing or attempting to demonstrate whether medicines have value for patients, I feel I understand this trade off between potential impact and tangible results and how it can get make a difference to my own motivation.

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ItsDominare@reddit

I work in financial services. On the one hand, my job and others like it are unquestionably necessary for our modern society to function the way it does. On the other hand, it's difficult to explain the scope of my specific role without putting people to sleep.

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RevolutionaryMail747@reddit

Yes I really do. Made the move into public health and the money is not amazing but I am so lucky to have incredibly meaningful work, fast pace and that can be relentless, lots of change and great management. After so many years it felt amazing. Hard graft for ten years but I look back and know the value of that time. Yeh I couldn’t have made more but I struggled with the pointlessness of commercial work and it made me depressed in the end.

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feedmepizzaplease99@reddit

I work at a non profit supporting refugees. Meaning in a job is bullshit. I’d love to work a “meaningless” but decently paid WFH type job. Every job is stressful/boring - if you are comfortable, treated decently, well paid then that’s all the meaning needed.

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budapest_budapest@reddit

Yes and no. I’m an admin in local government. I’m not directly doing the impactful work myself and don’t get the “I’ve touched people’s lives first hand” glow. But without what I do, the people who do directly make a difference wouldn’t be able to.

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TotallyTapping@reddit

I've written above about my most recent job (22 years classroom support), but before then I also did local government work -civil service, back in the 80's and early 90's. Back then it was when the unemployment office and social security benefits office were separate. I worked on reception and most of the time my duties were dealing with folks stating their claim was taking too long, or that their money had been stopped for whatever reason, so I am sure they didn't think my job made a difference, but one of my particular duties was bereavement benefits support. Basically, when someone lost their husband/wife/partner/child etc, I would complete all the change of benefits forms with them, making sure they got whatever they might be entitled to (help with funeral costs, widows benefits, additional pension, income support etc) often suggesting benefits they might never have known about. I like to think that I helped make their extremely difficult time a little easier to navigate, at least financially.

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blaireau69@reddit

Yes. I’m a wagon driver. Everything that everyone buys in the shops gets there by HGV, at some level.

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Smiley_Dub@reddit

Perhaps there's no real *science* behind what you do for the company HOWEVER you're the best information they have You're doing a good job and you're doing your best Don't be too hard on yourself

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pajamakitten@reddit

Biomedical scientist in transfusion. I have no idea what I am doing but what I do does save lives, so it is meaningful.

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TotallyTapping@reddit

For 21 of my 22 years in education I was certain my job was meaningful. I was classroom support, and to have that light bulb moment from children who struggled was the best thing in the world. The last one/two years of my work was mired in budget cuts and huge increase of severe SEN children being pushed into the mainstream school because the special schools are all full. My final year was taken up essentially babysitting non verbal children who had no concept of learning, they just wanted to play with bubbles and trains (oh and with absolutely no training whatsoever to work with these children - "use Makaton signing to communicate with them" "I don't know Makaton, can you send me on a training course?", "no, there's no money in the budget for that, just look at some videos online"). I watched children in that class who would have benefitted so much from my help fall further and further behind, while I walked round with a bubble maker for one child who will never be able to live an independent life, and my heart and soul broke. I knew I could not do another year like that, (I had already been told that the following year would be just the same as the school had even more SEN children coming in), and left that summer break.

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pajamakitten@reddit

> My final year was taken up essentially babysitting non verbal children who had no concept of learning, they just wanted to play with bubbles and trains (oh and with absolutely no training whatsoever to work with these children - "use Makaton signing to communicate with them" "I don't know Makaton, can you send me on a training course?", "no, there's no money in the budget for that, just look at some videos online"). I watched children in that class who would have benefitted so much from my help fall further and further behind, while I walked round with a bubble maker for one child who will never be able to live an independent life, and my heart and soul broke. I knew I could not do another year like that, (I had already been told that the following year would be just the same as the school had even more SEN children coming in), and left that summer break. I had a kid like that in my class when I was teaching and feel your pain. It shoudl be seen as heresy to say those kids have no place in mainstream education when all they do is take away valuable time from the kids who need help and would actually benefit from an adult's attention. TAs are invaluable and should not be used as glorified babysitters.

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Da1sycha1n@reddit

Solidarity - I've been in early years education my whole working life and have also chosen to leave. The last two years have killed it for me. I love my job and am so grateful for many years of sharing learning and joy with young children, but I can't do it anymore, I can't put myself in harms way every day and be forced to neglect most of the children because I'm running around trying to stop one child weeing everywhere or trying to climb cupboards. I'm a big advocate for inclusive education but we cannot do it without adequate funding and staffing!! Hope you find another job that feels meaningful, I'm retraining as a SaLT... I also considered going into the charity sector, or some kind of community work.

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TotallyTapping@reddit

Thank you, I decided not to bother looking for something else. I am 60 now, and will spend my spare time helping teach my grandchild the basics (the 3 "r"s as it was in my day) so they can survive primary school once they're old enough to go, as it seems increasingly likely the classroom teacher's time will be taken up babysitting rather than teaching.

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ListeningForWhispers@reddit

There is a secret about software engineers. Their day seems very clear cut and regimented. Look, they have tickets and they move from left to right on the Jira board. So clear and productive! There's even a graph that burns down story points! This developer has done 15 this week! Don't ask what a story point is, that's verboten. The contents of those tickets is, often, a nightmare. There have been months of my life I have spent writing features that no one will ever use. Often very complex, clever, features. But noone will ever use them. They are there because someone three levels up wants it on a PowerPoint. 5 person team, 8 hours a day, hundreds of man hours, billed at silly money for an ability to pull a report that out metrics show has never once been accessed in three years. There is an entire cottage industry around trying to make developers develop software more efficiently and it's not because the job tends to bend towards productive effort on its own. Which isn't to say Devs don't provide value, but good project managers, switched on execs being fed sensible data from people doing jobs like yours makes a world of difference. You can tell inside a week whether whoever's above a software team knows what they're talking about. If the numbers were more accurate we'd probably not have been asked to make that feature. Only very junior or very arrogant developers think that those less direct jobs don't matter to the product.

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liseusester@reddit

I believe that the organisation I work for, and sector I work in is meaningful. I work in professional services for a university. My day to day work is a mix of ensuring the campus runs and the buildings work and that people are aware of things, and helping guide our physical inclusivity and accessibility.

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E420CDI@reddit

I work in child protection for a city council. It's harrowing at times (I had a breakdown last year) but knowing that I'm helping my city's young and vulnerable people to have a safer childhood makes it worth it.

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Jazzlike-Mistake2764@reddit

> All of my days involve making up numbers of how many items I think we will sell over the next few months I'm sure you've got quite good at it without noticing, and other people look at you and wonder how you're able to predict things they wouldn't even know where to start with What's the end result of what you do? How does it help other people do their job better? What could you do to make your output more helpful/accurate?

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SpiffyPenguin@reddit

Not really? I’m a marketing consultant. I help small businesses improve their ad campaigns. When I do well, I make them more money or help them understand what they need to improve on. These businesses benefit from my expertise, but that’s about as far as it goes. But I really don’t care. I make enough money to do the things I truly enjoy, and that’s pretty good.

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Kaiisim@reddit

Yup. Extremely meaningful. I work for a small charity helping old people. It's stressful and paid like absolute dog shit, but meaning is the one thing I do have. If I stopped doing my job people's lives would get worse. I get direct and immediate feedback on how I did a good job or that people appreciate me.

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Mop_Jockey@reddit

Very small cog in a big machine, would the ship be able to sail without me? yes. Would someone else have to do my job? also yes.

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LevelOneForever@reddit

So does that mean you feel like it’s not meaningful?

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Mop_Jockey@reddit

It's meaningful to me in the sense that I get the job done and get paid. There is occasional job satisfaction and if the ship as a whole achieves something then I feel like I have been a part of that. But quite a lot of the time it's just a job.

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SamVimesBootTheory@reddit

Not really I would argue maybe at one point as hey I work in an outdoor shop so I'm selling people things like raincoats and walking boots which are useful so that was something right. But over a year ago now due to struggling at work I was put on reduced duties and now I basically just show up on a few closing shifts a week to help face up the store as I'm basically not trusted to do anything else and honestly I feel pretty superfluous a lot of the time even if I'm an extra pair of hands and I know it's needed sometimes. But also even before this it was like I work, we meet targets, we don't get anything really for meeting the targets we just get new targets we're basically constantly understaffed, I'm paid min wage and sometimes we get a tiny bonus if we meet targets that's just not worth the effort.

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jmabbz@reddit

Yes. I work for a charity and sort people out financially. 'tis meaningful.

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Ysbrydion@reddit

I work in video games. To be a tiny bit more specific, I help people make video games. I hope they make people feel things. There is that. I could be a tiny part of that kind of impact. So yeah. I like software development. I like solving problems and making users happy (making the boss happy is good too. It's a chill industry. Most people are nice.) I try not to take jobs at Mad Bastard's Evil Emporium, though I appreciate that's not always easy. I always want to feel like I'm helping people and making myself useful.

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SleepFlower80@reddit

Yes and no. I own my own business investigating financial crime. While a lot of what we do is for corporations, we do also take on a lot of work for individuals. That work always feels more worthwhile.

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Celery_Worried@reddit

Yes. I'm a community musician/music teacher and I'm so glad I can do what I do. I know I make a huge difference in the lives of dozens of people. It's not the hard-and-fast tangible benefits of some careers but musicians are important.

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Cumulus-Crafts@reddit

Hah, hi fellow ecom person. I didn't even know what my job was for when I applied for an ecom customer service advisor position. I really enjoy it now.

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SoiledGrundies@reddit

I work in the film industry. Hundreds of millions of people enjoy the stuff I have a very small hand in making and they will still enjoy them decades after I’m dead. First MMP I worked on was Troy. The opening shot of that film is a map. I was the camera operator on that shot.

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fiofo@reddit

That's really cool! Definitely fulfilling!

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fiofo@reddit

I work in recruitment, so it's a bit of both: meaningful to the person you're trying to get a new job for, but as I don't speak to any of the candidates directly, I'm actually kinda pointless. I don't live to work though, it's just a way to make money.

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sleepyprojectionist@reddit

I build lasers that are used in genome sequencers. In a very small way I am helping in the research and eradication of diseases. Of course there is a great chance that the same machines are also used in bio-weapons labs, so I might also be a monster.

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hadawayandshite@reddit

There’s an old story (which takes multiple forms) of JFK speaking to one of the janitors at nasa and he asks him what he does, the guy responds ‘I’m helping to put a man on the moon’ A similar one is told about cleaners in a hospital ‘I’m helping people get better’

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PM-me-your-cuppa-tea@reddit

Yes, I work in Reddit’a least favourite profession. HR. My job title doesn’t exist elsewhere, but I would describe my work as a cross between a strategy partner and an hr business partner. I spend my days solving problems for colleagues, helping with talent development, dealing with resourcing and managing budgets, and supporting on any people related issues. I don’t like traditional Employee Relations based HR roles as I went into people based roles to help not be a blocker, so in my current role I’m an advocate and supporter of 200 people, I work with the C-suite equivalent and get lots of insight into things way out of my remit and every day is different, reactive problem solving vs long term projects. So far today I’ve led a few sessions on our performance cycle, done some data checks as bonus season is approaching, booked a few different training sessions to use our budget, organised some recruitment and completed forecasting for November onwards. I spend my days resolving people’s problems, and that’s a nice dopamine hit, I’ve got longer term operational projects I’m working on too but that’s not what I enjoy, I’m here for the instant gratification

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_Leo_Spaceman_@reddit

Let's connect. I am just about to start the exact job you describe. Would be interested to hear a bit more if you don't mind!

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Darkerscr@reddit

Not at all. I make aircraft components. In large scale. Same things over and over. Yes they're for planes. But ones I'll never probably board. I like this think that the parts I make are being used say for medical aircraft etc. But Doubt it

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pikantnasuka@reddit

Yes, ish, but on a much smaller scale than it was I used to lead safeguarding at a site where we cared for over 150 people, mostly under the MHA, and now I work at at organisation where we care for far fewer people spread over a number of smaller sites without any use of the MHA It's not a job that's about money and it has genuine impact on those people we care for but *only* on them and I'm not enthused by it any more

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Ouakha@reddit

Very rarely. I work in financial planning compliance. There are rare moments where you prevent someone who is not well off being, well, made even less well off.

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Greggybread@reddit

No. I work in a company where the CEO micromanages to the point that my role is utterly pointless. It's a paycheck, but I'd jump ship in a heart beat if I found something with better pay and actual development opportunities.

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soraie_@reddit

I'm a graphic designer & work in social media. A lot of the work I produce is just marketing material for companies who earn millions and don't necessarily provide much in the way of meaningful business other than to earn cash. I've worked with charities before and I wholeheartedly enjoyed that work a lot more, since I can actually see fundraising efforts increasing thanks to ads or the like. At the end of the day, i'm fortunate that I turned my hobby into my career and i'm not entirely sick of it just yet (don't get me wrong, some days I want to throw in the towel, but those are far and few between). I'm glad I have a job in the first place tough, the design industry is quite brutal at times.

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MelodicAd2213@reddit

Yes I analyse data and monitor performance in the Criminal Justice System. In my time I have undertaken some interesting analysis around various areas including some local reoffending.

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Elliott_Ness1970@reddit

Yes but not in the way of what I do particularly. I am a manager for a company. I do my best to make sure we grow so as many people have safe jobs as I can achieve. I try and make sure everyone has a good place to work with decent pay. That’s what makes it meaningful for me. Making money for someone else is neither here nor there unless it means growth so I can do more of the same.

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Rap-oleon_Bonaparte@reddit

No. But I didn't strive for a job with meaning I wanted one that paid well but didn't involve much work and it ticks all those boxes.

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omgbaobunstho@reddit

My job is meaningful. I work in local government and try very hard to make a difference. Even though my work is stressful, I suffer vicarious trauma and don't get paid loads, I still feel like I'm doing something worthwhile.

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HardAtWorkISwear@reddit

Nope. I work in quality control. To do a thorough job, we test our products to a variety of different methods. However, our accounts department likes to have everything closed and paid up within a couple of days of the end of the month, so we get heavy pressure from the people above to sling things through without a full suite of tests, essentially rendering this entire department pointless. I object every time, hoping that they'll see just how much work it takes so we can get a new hire and not be so overworked, but I'm always overruled to make people happy.

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derelictnomad@reddit

I'm a doctor, radiologist to be more precise. Over 90% of what i do is because someone has written a protocol about what should happen. Must of it makes no difference to patient management in my opinion.

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AppropriateIdeal4635@reddit

I work in software consultancy and it’s a bit of both. It’s satisfying to see a difficult project successfully finish with approval from the client, but still have the same existential thoughts as you

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NL0606@reddit

Yes I work in early years I'm literally shaping the next generation!

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Jolly_Constant_4913@reddit

Used to do Rail supply chain. Managed millions in revenue and profit. Paid poorly but respected and treated well. Mostly sat at the desk. Didn't get told off so I knew things were running. Made the odd mistake which cost £150k but on the whole fairly smooth over 5, years. Didn't take things to heart if customers planned poorly. Everything remained forever vague and hypothetical except my numbers and spreadsheets🤣

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AffectionateFig9277@reddit

I work for an emergency call centre. Basically, 97% of calls are "oops, sorry, I didnt mean to press that!" The other 3% can be anything. I've witnessed a murder. I am being chased in my car. There has been a 20 car pileup on the motorway (yes that did happen, in ZA). I don't know where my mummy is. I am having an allergic reaction and I don't have an epi-pen. I am 85 and I had an accident, I am hanging upside down in my car (had that one 3 times on good friday 2024). Or, my favourite so far from last week: I just saw someone doing a balloon whilst driving. When I tell people what I do, they are always so amazed, especially by the things I've heard before. But in reality I usually have about 20 mins between calls where I can do what I want (wfh atm), then I get a false alarm which takes 30 seconds to process, and then I go back to watching stupid instagram reels.

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FilmFanatic1066@reddit

No but also I don’t care, I work to earn money, meaning is for my life outside of work

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ImJustARunawaay@reddit

I'm an IT Consultant - so, sometimes, yes. I've been lucky enough to do real, impactful work, for real and impactful organisations. But, mostly, no - my specialism is mostly confined to the likes of banking and insurance, and that sort of corporate world makes up the bulk of my life. Obviously we need banks and stuff, but it's not exactly the same as spinning up a cancer research centre. In terms of what I do day to day, in line with your post though - yeah, very much so. I build things that I can virtually touch, and see used, and whatever. In that sense what I do is very real, it's not busy work or just numbers on a spreadsheet etc. The stuff I design and build gets used, for sure, it's just not overly exciting sometimes

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CoffeeIgnoramus@reddit

I work as a marketing/design person for a family business that works on improving education based on research. Sure, we charge a "high" amount when seen from the outside, but we basically just about cover our costs and decent (not insane) pay for everyone. I feel like my job is meaningful because my aim is to let people know that we exist. So I never feel like I'm forcing people to buy or having to claim benefits that aren't really there or covering up a downside. We (I believe, as does everyone in the company) are a benefit to those we work with. So I feel good knowing that we are little by little helping people get the education they deserve. Genuinely.

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Polz34@reddit

Sometimes. I'm an office/site manager so often I am just holding people's hands with stuff they should already know, or answering really weird ad-hoc questions (e.g. how can we get hold of a tombola for a team building event) Having said that I also do all site communications and organise a lot of on site things that affect everyone (such as providing fruit/tea/coffee/stationery) also conducting safety tours and implementing policies when needed with support form the EHS team. For example back in February I presented an idea for a new safety policy around distracted walking, wrote a policy, posters the lot. Anyways, it's taken a while because we are a Global company but finally got word last week this policy isn't just being put into place on my site but for the whole organisation, so I feel quite proud of that. I also organise the yearly on site flu vaccinations (which are free to our business) I literally manage the budget so I have to get approval for the spend and then take the whole journey though to getting them delivered, so I get to see the end result which helps. I'm also quite lucky my predecessor was pretty sh\*t so I still years later have people telling me how much everything has improved since I started in this role.

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A_K_Chase@reddit

To be honest I'm stunned they continue to pay me. I work in tech (but not a developer).

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Cyberhaggis@reddit

I work for big pharma so yes, but also no. Sure I'm helping to cure people of deadly diseases and create new pharmaceuticals, but the main reason from the companies perspective we do any of that is to make some rich people even richer. If they could get away with just grinding people into a fine poultice and sell that as a snake oil cure to save a penny, they would.

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NaughtyDred@reddit

I'm a security guard, my job meaningfully reduces insurance premiums for the business... So no

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Infinite_Edge1442@reddit

I worked at a particular sex shop warehouse during lockdown. People were buying Penis Pasta and Condoms in dozens (like wholesale boxes). I'd like to think that I helped feed the country and prevented baby boom. I always picture the parents trying to explain to the kids that "this is elephant pasta".

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steveakacrush@reddit

Sometimes - if I'm working on a project that affects national infrastructure then I feel like I'm doing something useful; if it's for a bank or law firm then no.

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fishercrow@reddit

i work in mental health. some days it feels like im just a body in the building to meet regulations, but when people do let me support them i feel on top of the world. i remember helping someone hoover after months of them declining support to clean. i had to go outside and do a victory dance i was so happy. i definitely don’t do the job for thanks, but when people i support do say thank you and show appreciation its the best feeling ever. im definitely not changing the world at my job, but i do feel like i am make a difference to the people i support.

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hadawayandshite@reddit

I'm sure there's more to your job than you make out- could you do a bit of cognitive reframing of your job? focus on the benefits it brings to people or your specific contribution to the company? I'm an A-Level teacher and it happily does give me a feeling of meaningfulness- sure I'm a cog in the machine and they could replace me/someone else could do the job- but I work with a lot of underpriveledged kids (I think the current stat is 50% come from households with less that 35,000 income in total) who are in the lowest quartile of the country financially, first in their family to think about going to uni etc. Then on average I help them achieve into the top 25% of the country (for their starting point)....they're more likely to go to uni at my place (by double digits %) when compared to similar kids elsewhere in the country. Lots of kids with lots of problems which sometimes you can help them with...sometimes no one can but you can know that you tried and they have another adult giving them support and someone to listen when they need that. I've got a box of thank-you cards on a shelf in the spare room (which my daughter was looking through yesterday) which tell me that my job is meaningful---not in a world changing way but to certain individuals. There is obviously a trade-off, my wife is off out with some friends now whilst I'm using my half-term day off to get ahead on some work and update the class profiles for my kids this year

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mumwifealcoholic@reddit

Yes. In that it allows me to fund my actual meaningful experiences. And by living frugally, I can still expect a good balance between time and effort. I only wish I had a better speaker:)

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ThreeRandomWords3@reddit

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit\_Jobs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs)

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