Great question! I was in a rut with my old job also when I started working on JQBX (https://www.jqbx.fm https://www.jqbx.fm). It's a platform for sharing music

Great question! I was in a rut with my old job also when I started working on JQBX (https://www.jqbx.fm https://www.jqbx.fm). It's a platform for sharing music in real time with others via Spotify. The reason I started was that the "real time" technical challenges were new to me and fun to solve. But more importantly as time went on I got to rediscover my love of music and start a really cool community. Most of the people I meet on there tell me they have been looking for something like this for years and that because of JQBX they've been able to reconnect with some of their past music buddies. So that's pretty rewarding. That being said I've tried starting some other fun projects that didn't flesh out- but it's always worth the experience IMO. So if I were you I'd ask "what do I really like" and then "how can I apply my knowledge to enter that space somehow" and then start hacking away. Goodluck w/ the new projects :)