This is one of top articles I have read from you and so many points that we are in agreement. And I feel I am at that stage of finding relevancy and not sure if it's an age thing or Covid or some other excuse. Reading holoz0r's post the other day where he feels he is stuck in a runt sort of hit close to home.
I think I always had a decent relationship with money and have always said I don't always work for the money, but I am realistic enough to know how important money is for everything. So for me the job is always just a job to pay for the things that I want to do. I do not identify with it nor wish to be. What my true identity is, that's the question that I am not sure of as well.
Just read Hol's post. Yeah - we all feel like that sometimes - sometimes it becomes a lot of the time.
Identifying with a job is what breaks old people apart when they retire and find they don't know who or what they are anymore. It is a road to pain. However, identifying with personal growth is a path that is endless, even if the activities might change. We can all be a bit better physically, but as we age, the return on the effort diminishes fast, so we could then turn more time and attention toward something else. Ultimately, we all end up identifying with something, so we may as well try to make it something worthwhile to us.