Yeah. Learning something new keeps me going for more than 10 years already. At my job I'm actually system administrator, but actually half of that is coding.

Yeah. Learning something new keeps me going for more than 10 years already. At my job I'm actually system administrator, but actually half of that is coding. Constantly learning - what affects performance, how to pinpoint what causes perf issues, how to tune up databases, sql-fu, data integration, analysis and how to debug with that mysterious windbg, how to automate stuff, script CI/CD tasks... it all takes time and just gets me excited. With all this I don't even have desire to learn new languages, as C# makes me quite happy, capable and effective. Lately even looking outside my main domain keeps me excited (arduino, fixing electronics etc.)