I took a 2 year break, and moved in to a tangentially related job. It helped a lot, but I still don't have the drive I did at one point to work 8 hours and then

I took a 2 year break, and moved in to a tangentially related job. It helped a lot, but I still don't have the drive I did at one point to work 8 hours and then come home and work on person projects all night. I was a full stack and then primarily backend developer for ~7 years. The burn-out hit hard in the last year or so. A lot of it was burn out specifically due to working on primarily B2B stuff, but it affected everything. I went to a new company that let me move around job wise. I did special projects for a few months that were heavy on the programming side, I bootstrapped a small security team for about a year, and then I bootstrapped a small platform/devops team for about a year. Then I got bored and went back to being a full time backend engineer at my current company. It was a great experience, I'm really glad I did it. I learned a ton about stuff I knew existed but didn't know well enough to speak intelligently about. I'm glad im not doing it anymore, and the company I was with during my 2 year break wasn't great, but I wouldnt trade it for anything else.