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Your comment comes as a kick in the gut to me. I feel the same but didn't realize it until I read your comment.

For me, programming has become largely unappealing since the advent of cloud computing (which happened shortly after I entered the market). I really miss the first years of my career.

I also miss my early years, writing programs on a BBC Micros or for Windows 3.0 in Turbo Pascal for Windows. Now everything seems sanitized and no longer challenging.

I think it's the learning experience and result we crave.

For many years, I'd get frustrated with jobs where the projects were invariably limited to copying and caching data. I kept moving from one job to the next, hoping to find something better. Life is better now that I'm no longer searching for that elusive unicorn.

Now that you are older and much more experienced, have you considered the following?

1) Find some worthy students and be their mentor

2) Do Program something you really want or enjoy, e.g. a game or a new language

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