> The truth is that most software companies are...pointless. They're sales driven body shops talking about "mission".
Most jobs are pointless in the global scheme of things.
Most jobs are pointless in the global scheme of things.
First, I disagree you should measure mans life on global scale, and secondly I disagree jobs are pointless.
The meaning to many jobs comes from the impact to the community, the people around the employee - "stakeholder value" is the term someone would use. Nurse, cleaner, garbage car driver, teacher, doctor, airplane pilot - all have impactful jobs that create a physical and psychological imprint on the world.
If you seek global impact - I don't think a single human being can have much of that - and seeking global scale effects reeks of megalomania.