I cannot and will not subscribe to this notion that lying to people for pay is an ethical career. During my one stint in marketing, I got to the point of feeling physically ill that I was making the best money in my life to write saccharine copy about products we internally mocked our customers for buying
I hope this helps more than it hurts to hear, but there is no such thing as an ethical career. Capitalism always finds a way to usurp any meaningfully good gesture and corrupt it with a profit motive.
I work as a provider at a children's hospital, and I get to do a lot of good. But I also get to tell people that I can't help them, and not because I physically can't, but because they don't have the coverage. I am responsible for putting already economically disenfranchised families in even more debt, because Dad worked too hard and made too much money to qualify for Medicaid. The system makes us complicit.
I honestly don't know how I can find a job that makes life worth living at this point
I don't think anyone's job should be the only reason they get up in the morning. Even if you had the best job in the world....a job isn't a substitution for a life.
but I don't like selling myself through insipid, meaningless prose just because it's what others want to hear.
Ethics are subjective, and you have a right to stick to your own. However, I don't think you should feel guilty or bad about guilding your resume. Most. HR managers have no idea what they're asking for and as I said, no job is really ethical.
If my work knew about all the free healthcare I gave out, they would have some ethical complaints. And I have some ethical complaints for them pertaining to the price of healthcare. So as a compromise I give out as much free healthcare as I can get away with, and they don't ask too many questions. Sometimes a decent compromise is the best we can do as individuals in this country.