[rdtek]

Some development jobs are more interesting, I've worked in a startup which was very fast pace and plenty of tech to learn and challenging projects, but the renumeration wasn't great so switched to an enterprise style company. Pace is slower which is fine because it allows a lot of time for enjoyable side projects and self directed learning. If your day to day tasks aren't challenging enough you can carve out some time to create your own projects.

[navyad]

Same situation led me contributing to open source projects.

[behnamoh]

Ironically, [some of] those people working on open-source projects work for proprietary software companies...