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I've had a very similar experience. While I do agree that you end up with a lot of boring work, it really isn't tough to keep skills sharp either. It's probab

I've had a very similar experience. While I do agree that you end up with a lot of boring work, it really isn't tough to keep skills sharp either. It's probably worth setting time a specific amount of time for this very purpose. Establishing a 20% time concept is much easier when you are in control of your own hours. I've found that as a freelancer while I haven't been working on cutting edge tech as much my social, project management, and business skills have all improved by leaps and bounds. This may be even more important than being familiar with the cutting edge js frameworks or slinging around some deep neural network models.

dejv 9y ago
Well it depends on what you consider being interesting: finding work that let you use latest javascript framework or architecting micro services? Easy. Finding work that will let you spend years and years perfecting the way how to make query engine of specialised embedded database run faster? (my old job) Less likely. It depends on your ambitions, lot of people would be happy to work on regular apps for rest of their professional life, some not. People just have to think about it as coming back into that "hardcore" sector is not easy after years of writing crud apps.