I hit this point after a few years working. I realized that outside of my day job, which at the time felt very much aligned to the stylized "Bullshit Jobs", I f

I hit this point after a few years working. I realized that outside of my day job, which at the time felt very much aligned to the stylized "Bullshit Jobs", I felt like I was just a consumer of things others made. I got into woodworking, and I started building up new skills in anticipation of hanging my own shingle in the Data Science / Development space. Its been almost a decade since, and.... - I got into exercism.io to really deeply learn languages I was using, and learn others besides. The same set of problems but new languages. Learned Python and C much deeper, then got to play with nim, rust, java, C++, and more. Super helpful to learn. - I started looking at open source projects I use all the time and seeing where I could possibly contribute. - I started getting into my hobbies. Woodworking where I can (I prefer hand tools to power tools), exercise, teaching kids (my own and others in neighborhood) strategy games (usually starting with chess), starting a garden where possible (we've moved a few times) - Working towards cloud certificates. I haven't come across a need to actually get them or keep them up to date as a data scientist or (now) executive, but being able to plan solutions with cloud resources is super useful