I want to be less engaged! Leaving work behind both physically and mentally at 5pm is important to me.
I want to treat my work as a necessary "transaction" and don't want to devote any additonal energy to it than is required. Save your mental energy for your own life and activities.
Sure we all want our work to be fulfilling, but from experience I would urge against getting too "into" your work.
As a high school dropout who eventually did community college to a degree in computer science at a UC, I've worked all kinds of minimum wage, soul-sucking jobs in between. Just having enough money and free time now to do anything else besides my job has been such an amazing gift, and I could give two shits at this point if I sometimes have to deal with a GWT codebase regularly.
I want to treat my work as a necessary "transaction" and don't want to devote any additonal energy to it than is required. Save your mental energy for your own life and activities.
Sure we all want our work to be fulfilling, but from experience I would urge against getting too "into" your work.