Can't agree more. I don't intend to complain about my job at all, my colleagues are great and I earn enough, but I cannot put my creativity into it. I'd love to do new things, actually write (Python) code, solve interesting problems, work with huge distributed systems and optimize performance and scalability. But also doing more on the creative and user experience side. Now I'm just making minor fixes and adding minor features, and the most challenging aspect is avoiding stepping on mines in a big minefield of poorly written tightly coupled legacy code. Even the simplest things take days, and then there's the bureaucracy... This makes those 8 hours a day seem a bit wasted, time flies and when I get home I'm too tired to do much constructive. Too bad I'm a fucking wuss and too scared to start freelancing :/

I had to do a double take after I read this to make sure I didn't write it and forget about doing so.

I too am 31, changing careers, and building space into my day job to do interesting things.

Of course, the Adderal prescription helps.

Do it. asap.