Depending on your background, taking a gig in R&amp;D or a rapid prototyping shop can be very clarifying, and you get to use and bring to play lots of old skills the young folk don&#x27;t even know about.<p>You don&#x27;t have to really worry about framework, just pick one. Or you might end up reworking fundamental data structure code, which can be really fun for an exercise of algorithmic design.<p>On the other-hand, maybe it&#x27;s time to go multi-disciplinarian, take a gig connected to, but completely outside of your comfort zone. Nothing put me into a state of panicked &quot;I need to learn from the firehose&quot; mode faster than this. I&#x27;m not even talking technical work, go be a manager, or an industry analyst, work on soft skills or liberal arts fields. Your old skills can provide interesting viewpoints nobody else has.