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I've been programming for approximately 20 years, and there was a period where I was definitely burnt out. I can remember thinking to myself, 'who would ever read a blog about programming outside of their work?' But, that passed and I have been in love with programming again for a long time.

My advice would be to do what you need to do to weather this period of your employment and not give yourself a hard time about it. you don't NEED to be doing anything. If your job is still coding, do some coding while you are at work, go home and then do some hobby that you have been wanting to do. Learn to play the piano or fly racing drones or whatever.

If you have a long enough career, having a six to eight month slump of not being into coding is nothing, so don't sweat it. Just make try to make it through it without making it worse.