I had a maker mindset during my childhood and in my college days. I was so into core digital and analog electronics and a lot of tinkering with Linux. I had some good and interesting time in my career in patches where I was doing embedded medical devices for 12 years wearing multiple hats. I had major personal projects and a lot of interesting stuff in the pipeline which I was excited to tackle.
After some personal family issues, things started declining rapidly as I was attacked from all sides emotionally and my very character was under the lens and being questioned. In the meantime I decided to change my company and all my personal projects were kept on hold prepping for the leetcode dance. Now getting back to what I was doing is becoming very difficult and I just don't have any interest in learning the never ending stream of new things to do even the most simple and basic of tasks.
Coupled with all this the horrible closed source mess of present embedded devices, terrible tools and also corporate nonsense and stupid colleagues really has me burnt out. I sometimes miss the days that my medical electronics would make a lot of difference to the end user. Now all I do is enable wireless connectivity for my customers who produce bullshit lifestyle gadgets in the name of IoT. Most of my colleagues are least interested and curious in anything.
It is also becoming very difficult to stay in a company for more than 2 years because of loss of interest coupled with hikes not matching rapid inflation. No meaningful work and relationships can be made with such rapid changes in life.
(Sorry for the rant. Going through some tough times.)