I've been doing this for 10 years now and I can see myself trending away from it honestly. To stave that off I'm taking jobs which pay less are more interesting

I've been doing this for 10 years now and I can see myself trending away from it honestly. To stave that off I'm taking jobs which pay less are more interesting: firstly I did some functional stuff and now I work for a non-profit that does mobile healthcare for hard to reach communities. It's very easy to get jaded. It's very easy to stare at the bespoke insurance application you and 6 other people have built (or slotted together from hideous technologies your client has already purchased) and wonder what the point of it all is. Writing code for something you're passionate about helps. Working out how to do things--not even important things, but just _other_ things--outside of work helps. Remembering that the effort / money ratio in programming (esp if you live in fancy parts of the states, which I do not, or want to sell your soul to the London bankers, which I also do not) is really pretty fantastic helps as well.