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by deadcore 2000 days ago
Yes, I had this exact feeling & here is my story.

I would go to work every day I feel unexcited about anything and everything. I would sit in meetings and be unengaging, I would be feel unmotivated to complete the work I was doing. New features, bug fixing, planning, cloud migration, interviews you name it and I was just feeling dead inside - and let's be clear this work was cutting edge stuff. The 'buzz' had just packed up it's bags gone.

So I quit work, out the rip I handed my notice in and left. I didn't work for 3 months; I sat and played games, went on walks, looked after peoples dogs, painted the house, read and after about a month I started working on my own projects again.

All of a sudden I found that 'spark' which used to get me up in the morning. Like when I first started programming. So I started working on my projects all day & every day - they're now on hold and I found myself a new company to work for and have never felt more engaged, excited and happy than ever before

Seriously, you may just need some leave everything behind and take some serious time off - sorted me right out