Do you have a hobby? If the answer is no, then you need to do some soul searching and find something external to technology that you would enjoy. My wife is a p

Do you have a hobby? If the answer is no, then you need to do some soul searching and find something external to technology that you would enjoy. My wife is a psychiatrist (well not yet, she is finishing her doctorate) and doing a study on burn out, she believes it is a undiagnosed form of temporal depression. Many times it's onset comes when a developer feels there is nothing more to learn, what she has named masters syndrome. Many times the very thing to break it, is to become a novice again. But the trick is a novice at something totally unrelated, my first one was ballistics. I bought a reloading bench and learned everything about the accuracy, power transfer of bullets. Fishing and Hunting have always been big for me as well, so I took time to do both. My wife believes that burn out is a product of a specific personality profile that likes to learn, but may feel that they have mastered their field. I stress that she is still collecting data and at this point it is conjecture, until the data validates it. But I can say developing new interests broke it for me and it certainly worth a try.