Once you actually know what you're aiming at, a lot of the standard career advice stops making sense.
"Dream job" is the obvious one. A job is a means to something else. Calling it the dream is a mix-up. You've turned the tool into the destination. Same with "work-life balance." It's a thing you sell to people who don't have a why of their own. If you know what you're for, you're not trying to balance the work against your life, because the work isn't the thing you're escaping from.
That's what people mean when they say teleology changes things. Pick the end first. Most of the anxiety after that turns out to be an unanswered "why" wearing a different costume.
— Simon