You don't become indispensable merely because you are different. But the only way to become indispensable is to be different. That's because if you're the same, so are plenty of other people.

Go do something interesting. Ask if you need help.

If you're not proud of where you work, go work somewhere else.

The job isn't to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo.

Most people have been brainwashed into believing that their job is to copyedit the world, not to design it.

One way to work the system is to work the system. The other way is to refuse to work it.

Acknowledge to yourself that the factory job is dead. Having a factory job is not a natural state. It wasn't at the heart of being human until very recently. We've been culturally brainwashed.