Congratulations on joining SR and deciding to quit Pete6256!
Most of us adults don't really have a choice about whether we work or not, unless we inherit or win the lottery we are obliged to work to keep a roof over our heads and so we go in feeling like death because we are driven by nessessity, we have to go in.
In that respect "functioning" is s very apt word because that is what we want from our domestic appliances, "to function" and that is what we reduce ourselves to, a kind of sentient domestic appliance.
It is no life at all, I doubt if many of us told our career advisors when we were younger that we wanted to "function." It is all a lie really.