Normally if we get burned out from regular engineering software or just feel like we need a change we switch over to another high paying field like financial en

Normally if we get burned out from regular engineering software or just feel like we need a change we switch over to another high paying field like financial engineering, game development, infrastructure automation, big data, statistics, cryptography, penetration testing, consulting, aerospace for us that have those special skills or can obtain them (normally requires a few degrees to become a rocket engineer due to not having the funds for a production scale wind tunnel or labs) and if the others do not seem that fun we normally start a business. As a software engineer you have more outside the field opportunities then others may have. Since we are very quick learners we can pick up things unnatural fast compared to others which is why you see many software engineers or programmers owning multi-billion dollar businesses in Silicon Valley. Ever meet someone that people keep telling him or her they can't do x,y or z and they end up doing it on a massive scale way beyond what anyone thought they were capable of (Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Page, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, etc.). It is all about finding what you like doing for fun, maybe the software your building at work is not fun, many go into game development mobile apps or cryptography and that excites them along with bringing in a nice paycheck if they do it for their own business.