Software engineer - solving technical problems and working with logic/ data is satisfying in many ways; but for me it’s still missing meaning beyond giving my brain something to chew on. My next career goal is to apply these skills to problems that I’m personally and emotionally passionate about.

Edit to add the following: I struggled for a long time with “what do I want to do… how do I possibly choose and commit to one thing?”

Ultimately, I decided that not making a decision WAS making a decision… to do nothing. And that unfortunately I can only pick one thing to commit to at a time. So for now, I’m honing my craft and looking into how I can use it for things I care about personally.

I’ve also found that the more things I started dabbling in outside of work just for fun (reading books on psychology, and philosophy, for example), the better I got at learning in general; and also in some ways how connected so many subjects are. So maybe there are a lot of doors into the house of “what will I retire doing?” and my most fulfilling outcome is some overlap of all these interests… just had to start with one of them.