Any Millennials, Gen Xers care to pitch in on a question about working in a soulless society? [View all]

[Baitball Blogger]

Dilemma: Millennial I know stepped out of the rat race a few years back to get a reset on life. He had a good cushion of income saved up and he lives modestly so he made it stretch until now. His timing couldn't have been worse because this job environment is bad because of the political environment that is destroying the economy. But, it is what it is. Now, the problem: All that time out of the rat race gave him time to think and contemplate and he isn't crazy about returning to work because, no matter where you go, every job revolves around the almighty dollar. In other words, financial decisions eventually undermine all the good that a corporation might have wanted to pursue at the inception. He's now too old to believe companies that lure in the young worker with promises that we're one big family. And, even jobs that on paper seem to do good, like working in a support field for the medical industry devolve when you're dealing with third parties, like insurance companies, doing everything they can to undercut the effectiveness of the medical community's purpose.

This level of jadedness is going to be hard to break. I do think it will come down to accepting less pay to do work that is self-fulfilling. So, my question to Millennials and Gen Xers, those of you who have seen these same issues either in your own lives, or with friends, what kind of jobs are the kind that could be fulfilling for someone with this mindset? The skillset would be in software engineering/programming.