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Nothing major but about when I turned 40 I went and did a lot of fun exploration of new programming languages and ideas. I did some game projects, some coding challenges on various websites, some hobby open source contributions and projects. It was all work very different than my day job, played with a lot of new languages. F#, Rust, Typescript, Nim, Go etc.

This ended up being really good when job hunting, I was up on all the hip new stuff, so I don't come across as being dated, and it was fun and I learned a lot. This didn't result in a total career turnaround or anything but I did get a lot of offers and better pay the next time I had to get a new job.

Sounds like you have some decent fundamentals and could easily ramp up skills in some field you are interested in and get more interesting work.



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