We are fundamentally people without much power in this world. Even powerful people fundamentally feel powerless. This in turn might make them act out in all kinds of way to assert that they do indeed have power.
However, most of us have little power. We chase money, status, title, position, and other external things to get some control over our lives. To feel that we do indeed have at least a modicum of power.
Of course it is a lie.
We choose to derive our power from all these other external things, which never had the ability to change the main premise of life: that we are indeed powerless in the grand scheme of things.
Where do we have at least some power? In choosing the stories we tell ourselves. In choosing the stories we choose to live out.
The work we do everyday is the place where everyday we get to affirm that we are indeed the master of our life.
When we instead work for extrinsic reasons: money, status, position, etc (all proxies for power), but ignore the main work itself, we come up empty.
It becomes like a soda company campaigning to reduce childhood obesity.
If we want to feel at least some sense of satisfaction, control, and indeed (limited) power over our lives, we owe it to ourselves to choose work that we are called to do. Intrinsically.