You do the work for the money, but you don't invest yourself in the work: you care about the people who love you back at home. In the end, the work (caveat edge cases) will be meaningless. You're converting time into fiat you need to pay for life. You can always make more money, time is non renewable.
"Today is your last day." "Meh, whatevs, going home to my family."
"Today is your last day." "Meh, whatevs, going home to my family."
https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/life-weeks.html
https://waitbutwhy.com/2013/08/putting-time-in-perspective.h...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Top_Five_Regrets_of_the_Dy...
(20+ years in tech, have been laid off twice, fired once, aware none of it really matters, we're all dead eventually, a blip in the cosmic timeline)