What happened to all those aspirations?

When I joined IISc, I wanted to do things that would change the world. I'd seen myself receiving the Turing award for all the brilliant things I would have done. Seminal, classic papers I wanted to write. Papers that people would read and say - "Damn. Wish I had written this!" (I'm not sure if even I would say that for the paper I was a part of!). Realized that it wasn't possible without giving up a lot of other things I wanted to do. I guess I probably was never passionate enough about research to give up the other things. I wanted to balance out professional life and the other stuff. I had to become less ambitious professionally. My Turing award dreams slowly changed to just dreams of good quality work that would be fun. "Who cares if it is revolutionary as long as it is fun and keeps you happy?" was what I told myself then. I was supposed to couple the downgrade in ambition with lots of other activities which I really wanted to do. They just never happened. I still want to do them. They are just not happening. And now, after joining a "much sought after job" in the software industry, I have just one question - What the fuck am I doing here? I am far from enjoying work. Neither am I doing the things I wanted to do. Where the fuck is this going? gg gb no re IT? Most likely.