I think it is all about balance. I am happy that I get to write new things every day and enjoy this aspect of it; I do not enjoy short deadlines and stress to get things working for a customer with incessant clock-watching. I enjoy learning new parts of development-land but I watch the industry and find new technologies and devices somewhat boring. I find the new aspects of programming languages (like C++ etc.) really interesting, in contrast to this.

So I have decided to reduce the amount of time I spend at a computer and read more. I play my bass more. I try and get the balance right, and hopefully I can reduce the number of days I work because there is a danger that whilst slaving to make a living, we forget to live.