I had a bit of a lull after 6 or 7 years. The I got a job building an entire system from scratch, learning Django (that not only gave me a big boost in product

I had a bit of a lull after 6 or 7 years. The I got a job building an entire system from scratch, learning Django (that not only gave me a big boost in productivity after Perl and CGI, but encouraged me to become a better coder). I realize now that working on new projects keeps me a lot more motivated than keeping someone else's crappy code running. Something that only requires a small team or one developer will make you feel like its your baby,rather than a small cog in a large wheel. Avoid enterprisey software as working with that can be soul destroying (Salesforce and Marketing cloud integrations have been the most demotivating things I have worked on in a long time). (Having said that, I think its time for me to learn something new myself as I have been using the same tech for 6 years now - Django is still great, but I need the same sort of thing for other areas of development).