Ask HN: Meaning Inside of Big Tech?

I've worked for a large tech company at an intermediate level for a couple years.

As far as jobs go no complaints! Great pay, great benefits, smart coworkers, but at the end of the day I'm finding myself demotivated to the point where it's starting to effect my work.

It's difficult to find the meaning in building the important piece of infra we work on. We have lots of users within the company and it relies on our software for doing some important back office stuff.

It really sucks, because I've been lucky so far with avoiding layoffs, paycuts and other big problems the industry has rn. I grew up lower middle class, missing housing payments/food during the Great Recession so it's hard for me to give up on a job that's objectively a sweet deal to go chase something else down knowing how bad things can get.

I'm curious what the HN crowd thinks, or what coping mechanisms you use if you've been through a period like this before?

I take time off to avoid burnout + side projects/hobbies, and have a therapist. Doing all of that is really helpful, but hasn't fixed the problem for me.