Is the Foundation for Good Work Leisure rather than Meaning

Work can become an obsession for many of us, either because we aim to deliver or are trying so hard to find meaning in our daily gring suggests Lucy Kellaway in Aim low to find meaning at work (FT, May 12).
She comments on a recent report from the Work Foundation titled ‘Meaningful work’: what it is and why it’s growing (May 6).
For whatever reason, maybe the need to get some distance with one's work, 'meaning' weaved nicely with Marci Alboher interview of Alison Link on Leisure’s Starring Role in a Complete Life.
It reminded me of a conversation I was part of in May of 2001 where a number of people lamented that questions about who they were and what they were doing focused only on their work, in other words how they made a living, a little reductive some will say.
Maybe it is better for your health ans sanity to look at work as what pays the bills.
You don't take it with you when you leave.
Maybe I am wrong?

Monday Work Etiquette #37

Previously: Quitting your Job, Better a Sweet Lie than a Bitter Outburst