[mattlondon]

I had the same issue after about 5 or 6 years.

I took a bit of a side-step into something entirely different (online ads) where I basically had minimal chance to code, apart from the odd ad hoc tool or script.

Now the only code I could do were trivial little hacks at work, or my own projects at home.

And now after about 3 years not coding for a living, I now realise that coding really is what I want to do. I work for a great company now - great equity, great facilities, free food and all that - but I miss coding and am pretty unhappy in this job despite the great conditions & super-smart colleagues because I now understand that I want to code again.

This time I will probably not go back to a big company, and would more likely go to a small place or even work for myself.

tl;dr - take a break. you don't know what you've got until its gone.