[Isamu]

This is why side projects exist.

Not just home side projects, either. Depending on what you can squeeze in, you should take opportunities to hack together little side things at work. You should do this for your own sanity.

Many times at work the awesome things come from somebody's (secret) side project, which turns out to benefit everybody.

If you do this, you will gradually fill up your resume with cool things that were a result of your own initiative.

Also: side projects are a source of startups.