Fellow Smalltalk Groupie from back in the day here. I jumped out of the balloon just over 10 years ago. I used to feel that I too would love coding forever. I

Fellow Smalltalk Groupie from back in the day here. I jumped out of the balloon just over 10 years ago. I used to feel that I too would love coding forever. I looked up to those that did. I wanted to be like them. I still do. Of late, I feel like I’m waning. I’ve spent the last 10 years “using the right tool for the right job”. I became a polyglot. Because Smalltalk alone wasn’t where it was at. So I’ve become proficient with one tool/language or another for just about everything except front end web development. And… I just feel tired of late. What I’ve worked on has been successful. I’ve played a key role in watering literally millions of agriculture acreage (well maybe more 100s of thousands, but there isn’t a good single word for that). And yet… I’m tired. And it doesn’t feel fun anymore. I can’t find the sense of community I used to feel in the Smalltalk tribe. I loathe the types of non technical management that seems to oversee software development more than ever (I like them as people, I just hate the ineffectiveness of their roles). Where simplicity and elegance used to seem a laudable goal in software, it just seems to be an attractor of complexity anymore. Complexity attracts more positions, more roles, more process, and the extra cash that has sloshed around for the last 10 years just seems to soak that right in. Curious if any of the “still loving it too” here, have any good advice on how to right this ship of enthusiasm before it founders.