Phoning it in at work is bad for you in the long term. That’s not balance, it’s wasted years. Either find a way you can do meaningful work at work, leave to do your own thing, or leave to find more meaningful work. Just my opinion.
I think most corporate unhappiness comes from the company’s board pressing down on the execs who in turn press down on the management. A good manager will keep you away from that bs. I have been at least two companies where the board decided to get involved in the day to day and it ends up where every decision must be approved by the board.for example, hiring a designer to design something and then the execs take the design all the way up to the board where they discuss how it should look before passing it back to the designer to change. Just fire your execs if you want to their job of running the company.
This is silly. 90% of corporate work employing millions of ppl is not 'meaningful work'