Let's talk about the feeling, of emptyness, of not having anything significant going on in one's life. I have ignored this for a while. Recently though, It got to a point I want to do something about it.

A little bit about my background.

I started programming while in college, around 2006. I initially hated it. The syntax rules really got to my nerves. That was C/C++. Then I learned Java, liked it a little bit(this was probably because there was a nice IDE to develop in. I could get nudges when the syntax was off, and only have to deal with logical errors). Fast forward to end of college, I got a job as a [junior] software developer, in a dev shop that was doing mobile service products as the core. I remember I did a subscription service that allowed soccer fans to subscribe to soccer match scores. At the back, We were getting live feeds from livescore.

Since then, I have worked in a number of companies, in different capacities. Initially in small dev shops(max of 20 people) with very mixed feelings( will one day do a post on this), and currently an Enterprise Architect at top bank in Kenya. Its been a wild ride, and I enjoy my current job as it gives me the enviable birds-eye-view of the technology in the company. Of course every job has its nuances but we learn to live and go past those. Its not the entire story, hopefully, it gives enough to appreciate where I am coming from.

I am an avid reader, and I follow a lot of technology news, including new tools(sometimes, I play with them, build toy products). I love DevOps, been reading and actually managed to host something on docker. Been reading up on kubernates, but it seems to require decent environment to learn effectively, so that's probably coming later. I do front-end work(angular, among others), as well as backend(mainly on Java, well, python as well). I do a lot of these on the sides though, my day job doesn't involve any of it.

I have a family, a lovely wife and three kids(two sons and one daughter). In my mid-thirties

But everyday, and more intensely of late, I can't shake off the feeling that life must hold more than what I do on a daily basis. Last weekend, I got to think and listed a few things I want to do to mitigate this. I know I can't be the only one experiencing this. So my question is, have you felt the same? What was your solution? I'd really like to hear your thoughts.