Are you taking &#x27;me time&#x27;? When did you last have a decent holiday where you did no programming, turned all your work-related email and phones off, and did something else that you enjoyed and found fulfilling?<p>It needn&#x27;t be a home hobby, it might be reading, it might be an activity-club that you enjoy, it might be volunteering - but I&#x27;ve found that I need things outside of work, even work I enjoy, or life&#x27;s pretty cruddy.<p>Similarly the stresses of work can really build up, even if the work&#x27;s quite interesting. There&#x27;s no amount of money I could be paid to work in a continual six month lump again. That&#x27;s the sort of thing where you take a holiday and spend the first few days of it just decompressing; eating icecream, sleeping, and reading or watching TV or the like.