- New job time... - Start a new project with a simple output, meaning you can see results quickly. - Buy a new video game, left 4 dead is great after the long

- New job time... - Start a new project with a simple output, meaning you can see results quickly. - Buy a new video game, left 4 dead is great after the long commute home for me OR start a new show to watch and veg once in a while. - Learn a new platform OR take on a hobby outside programming with your kids. Also you might be feeling the weight of the 40 yr old programmer. Well think of it this way... programming and especially web development/game development/app development is fairly new. Really our field didn't start out until the late 70s and the web mid 90s. So programmers will get older and older, you are nowhere near the end. It was a moment in time when all developers were young. I am in my early 30's and all my web/gamedev friends are around the same age but I also work with some 40 and 50 yr old developers in gamedev. Maybe even start something of your own on the side and slowly build it to something that can take out your dayjob. Also, remember this, sometimes we psychologically or even biologically create drama in our lives. Teenagers go through it heavily as biologically they are changing and it does spawn some depression bouts. Same with older people who might feel it closing in, but you can be depressed and do nothing or understand it is a phase and find a way through.