While doing custom enterprise apps in Java isn't the sexiest or the best paying job in IT I enjoy it quite a lot. Working on a standard and stable stack with we

While doing custom enterprise apps in Java isn't the sexiest or the best paying job in IT I enjoy it quite a lot. Working on a standard and stable stack with well-established conventions minimizes the hassle of jumping through the technical hoops and allows me to concentrate on the actual business problems. A couple of years ago I moved into an architect postition and while the high level of abstraction, customer interface and leading and instructing the development team is enjoyable I feel my personal development has slowed down significantly because I have very little time to contribute to the actual code. On my spare time I'd rather concentrate on my other hobbies and when I do programming it's mostly dabbling in Ruby, Clojure and other stuff I'd hardly be using at work. Currently I'm looking for a new gig that would be a lot more hands-on.