TL:DR - Stop, be ok with taking a break. Give yourself chance to discover what's left.
The thing to remember is that it's ok to have changes in interests. If our interests never changed we wouldn't make progress.
It sounds like you've got to a point where you are super comfortable with what you know.
Personally after I finished my CS degree I took a big break (2 years) from technology, building things and fixing things. Actually I felt like I hated all of it and that worried me a lot. I wanted to let all the learning settle & see what interest in the field I was left with - if at all.
After two years I made the decison to go into the applications support side of things as I realised I still loved the people part of it. Being the bridge between customers & developers, fixing things & I'm still doing that now. Even my interest in development has come back and I'm building things in my spare time again.
Also my partner & I have transitioned from taking photographs as a hobby, to professionally. I find that each time we get a photography job there's a little 2 month cycle where it goes from being great fun to just being 'done' with it. At that point we take fewer personal photos.
After a little time, the interest comes back we start photographing for fun again and then we get another job and it goes full circle.
I think you can only force creativity so long before it becomes work with obligations etc - that's when the interest fades.
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TL:DR - Stop, be ok with taking a break. Give yourself chance to discover what's left.
The thing to remember is that it's ok to have changes in interests. If our interests never changed we wouldn't make progress.
It sounds like you've got to a point where you are super comfortable with what you know.
Personally after I finished my CS degree I took a big break (2 years) from technology, building things and fixing things. Actually I felt like I hated all of it and that worried me a lot. I wanted to let all the learning settle & see what interest in the field I was left with - if at all.
After two years I made the decison to go into the applications support side of things as I realised I still loved the people part of it. Being the bridge between customers & developers, fixing things & I'm still doing that now. Even my interest in development has come back and I'm building things in my spare time again.
Also my partner & I have transitioned from taking photographs as a hobby, to professionally. I find that each time we get a photography job there's a little 2 month cycle where it goes from being great fun to just being 'done' with it. At that point we take fewer personal photos.
After a little time, the interest comes back we start photographing for fun again and then we get another job and it goes full circle.
I think you can only force creativity so long before it becomes work with obligations etc - that's when the interest fades.