My relationship to my career and my work is very strained right now.

I am exceedingly frustrated with the path I am on and my potential future within the technology industry. I really WANT to work in a system which is closer to my feeling of technology as a service delivery, enhancement, or provision mechanism, not the end product. The commodification of technology products is really eating away at my relationship to my work. I really want to use technology to make people's lives better.

It reminds me of the quote attributed to Steve Jobs talking to John Sculley in order to recruit him to Apple: "Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water to children, or do you want a chance to change the world?" Now I feel like saying to the tech industry: "Do you want to spend the rest of your life making commodified tech toys, or do you want a chance to really do something important?"