I work on a side project that&#x27;s designed to improve the projects we work on.<p>I strongly believe everyone (literally everyone, including support and admin staff) should have side projects that are aligned with the future goals of the business they work in. It doesn&#x27;t need to be code; it could be developing better processes to improve the way things are done, to document <i>everything</i>, to automate away boring things, to test other people&#x27;s projects, to just learn something useful, whatever. If you have a side project then you&#x27;re never left doing nothing and you have a sense of being a more integral part of the company culture.