As with most things in life there are varieties of burnout and I use side projects to fight off the variety that stems from feeling stuck in an "enterprise-y" environment where your day to day tools and frameworks are long overdue for modernization. The kind where the day to day monotony of keeping systems running and implementing dry feature requests just wears you down. OR - trudging along as a systems integrator where your third implementation starts to signal all this work is always the same and you mentally and emotionally start to wither away. For these kinds of problems having a few no pressure, no deadline side projects that let you explore the technologies of your choosing can really help remind why it is you do what you do.
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The short answer: Side Projects
As with most things in life there are varieties of burnout and I use side projects to fight off the variety that stems from feeling stuck in an "enterprise-y" environment where your day to day tools and frameworks are long overdue for modernization. The kind where the day to day monotony of keeping systems running and implementing dry feature requests just wears you down. OR - trudging along as a systems integrator where your third implementation starts to signal all this work is always the same and you mentally and emotionally start to wither away. For these kinds of problems having a few no pressure, no deadline side projects that let you explore the technologies of your choosing can really help remind why it is you do what you do.