This career feels like a few key hours with year-long cool-down periods
This attitude is terrible and corrosive to your own sense of self-worth.Yeah, life isn't fair, let alone performance reviews.  No matter who you are, someone else has it easier, like the trust fund kid you see driving past in the Tesla, but do you think he's happy?We all have to eat, so by all means take the next job that will pay you more.  But when you're at that job, whatever you are working on, take pride in it! Always do the best you can, even if you hate your boss.  This is not for the benefit of the company, it's for your own mental health and integrity.  Over time this builds your skills and competence, which opens more doors.  Petulantly slacking off because you weren't sufficiently recognized hurts no one but yourself; the universe does not care.