One thing that tends to happen is that the grind brings us to an existential crisis about our current situation and how to grapple with the dichotomy of our hard work and the unending treadmill of the workplace. We find ourselves living out a Kafkaesque life of the absurd. A bureaucracy designed to keep us busy while not actually going anywhere. Living out the life of Sisyphus pushing the rock up the hill only to have it roll back down once we get to the top, ad infinitum. There's no real point to it all. I've found that embracing the absurd is the only way forward. Companies are absurd. The interactions you deal with are unpredictable and lack reason many times because of the infinite variables that play out in each person's head leading up to each interaction and the ability to affect your station is not directly tied to any sort of logical pathway that can be followed. Rebel against the absurdity. Embrace it. When something brings you down laugh at it in the face and push forward. "One can imagine Sisyphus happy" -Albert Camus