My job isn't this bad but has the occasional pointless company meeting and the like. I'm fine with it - it's their money they're wasting. I do not look to my employer for meaning - I like the team I work with but I've no love for the work. I'm good at it and try to find joy in it where I can, but it is not my primary source of personal validation.
It's a pretty comfortable life. I've worked for myself before and it was much harder in every way with nowhere near the pay.
I was plenty good at maths up to the point where I couldn't study more (as in, my other subject choices locked me out of taking the next stage, A-level). However in general I found the more complex stuff abstract and characterless.
For example statistics bored me. We're working out the upper quartile something something? To what end?
I've used maths for accounts, programming, carpentry, and so forth, but that's always been fairly basic stuff. The more advanced stuff has never been of the slightest value to me (I still don't know why I, a layman, should give a shit about factorisation, prime numbers, happy numbers, etc..). I am not saying that it has no value - simply that to me personally it might as well be memorising the principles behind a naming scheme for shades of grey paint. I can learn the principles and they make sense, but so what?
I pretty much felt the same way about the higher levels of chemistry. Oh these are ionic bonds? Okay..?
My teachers were excellent and enthusiastic (my entire maths class got the highest grade possible, myself included) but I don't really see what there is to like. I didn't dislike it, I was just indifferent. The easier stuff could be like a basic puzzle game, the more complex stuff I could apply the system I learned and provide the correct, if pointless, answer.
It felt like being taught someone else's complex system for sorting different sizes of white paper, I suppose I could say.