I studied Statistics in university and was very passionate about it,
The subject I hated the most - but now wish I had been more interested in!
I still had a meaningful working experience all these years
This is a good thing to remember to I believe. Maximising meaning might get a bit more, but is the more enough to warrant the extra input. Perhaps I might get a bit more meaning doing something else, but at what cost?
Yeah agree, there's always that trade off.