I'm in the same boat as you, I got assigned to work on a project that keeps me really interested and my side projects right now are basically research and exper

I'm in the same boat as you, I got assigned to work on a project that keeps me really interested and my side projects right now are basically research and experimentation that might be useful for my main work project. Looking at projects like Ruby on Rails, Node.js and others like it where the creator created for work reason. Or look at Linus, his side project was Git. It was something he needed for work.