Ask HN: How to care about work again?

I was fired shortly after WFH orders came into place in Canada, in large part because the lack of options for things to do made my job the overwhelming focus of the day and I lost the will to do the relatively menial developer tasks (building a website for a pdf based product using next.js) that were asked of me in a timely manner. I may have burnt out, I'm not sure. I'm not depressed, but I can't bring myself to really be enthusiastic for any given thing I could apply to. I think this is in part fed by being burnt (and burnt out) in the past, the significant time and energy investment in getting a job, but also the somewhat dispensable nature of most companies and tech products. It all just strikes me as "some tech crap that I'll never see put to use". It's tough to find a connection of any kind with the output of what is usually either quite dull intellectual work or very hard intellectual work. The thought of assembling react apps for an arbitrary