the.com/drudgery
Work that pays your bills and quietly steals your soul, one identical day at a time.
means Dull, tiresome, repetitive labor that demands effort but offers no joy or reward.
from From the 16th-century English drudge, a servant doing the grim grunt work nobody else would touch.
Possible rootLinked to Middle English meaning to plod or toil.
Spelling cousinsDrudge also named a famously plain news website.
Built inThe word almost sounds like a sigh.