Actually, I agree with basically everything written here. The definition of "work" is "instrumentally useful activities that don't match our final desires". Trying to force your career to be a final desire, by altering your career or altering your desires, sounds noble but simply can't work for the vast range of occupations that genuinely are instrumentally necessary to make the world run.

Anyone who demands that you have a life-changing passion for digging ditches, flipping burgers, or writing SQL joins is a jerk. Careerism is a subgoal stomp.