A job is a job and it’s not there to be perfectly aligned with your passions and interests. There is nothing wrong with not being constantly obsessed with improvement and career path. I found that doing things that the 12yo version of myself would not be proud of for a prolonged amount of time takes a lot of joy away.
Taking some time off for self study has helped me a lot. Once every couple years I dedicate a couple months to play around and let my curiosity take me places. This might be a project, degree or undirected self learning. While this might not fix any day job disappointments, it helps to gain a fresh perspective and regain some of the time that I’d normally give to some organisation that pays the bills.
Just looked into my spam folder and it seems that they have added a hook icon to the phishing emails. Took me a while to figure out, almost opened one out of curiosity!
Taking some time off for self study has helped me a lot. Once every couple years I dedicate a couple months to play around and let my curiosity take me places. This might be a project, degree or undirected self learning. While this might not fix any day job disappointments, it helps to gain a fresh perspective and regain some of the time that I’d normally give to some organisation that pays the bills.