You summed work up perfectly. I've always found work and doing something repetitive for 8 hrs/day completely unnatural and having no consternation towards work as strange. I've always felt like I belonged to someone else whenever I worked and people were forcing me to conform to what they wanted (and I've worked in many different types of professional and blue collar jobs: from an engineer to cemetery worker to office cleaner, etc.). I'm not built that way inside. I can not just turn things off and on when people want me to. Work relationships have always been the strangest relationships for me. Personal life and work life are like completely two diametrically opposing things and it all seems very unhealthy and unnatural. I can't give you any advice on how to go about it. I still have not figured it out.

Work has to be unnatural because on the weekends I could never spend time doing anything for 8 hrs straight. That sounds insane to me. I watch some people at work and I have no clue how they do it. Ever drive by workers in a field picking fruit or vegetables in the summer and wonder how they do that 8 yrs/day, 5 days/wk? Or truckers that drive 50-60 hrs/wk for 25-30 yrs? Boggles my mind. I would go loco.