Sounds like you need a challenging personal project that will soak up that unused itch. Something that needs lots of research into hard-to-find resources. And t

Sounds like you need a challenging personal project that will soak up that unused itch. Something that needs lots of research into hard-to-find resources. And then the mental challenge to fit all of those resources together. Mine is writing emulators for 40-year-old 'home computers' of the pre-16bit-PC era that can take the few surviving boot-rom images and floppy-images of software of the day and run that software just as the 'real' home-computers did. And of course, I have to make it a GUI program, even though it would be simpler to just run it in a terminal. Your project is out there. Find it.