New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Ever felt burnt out from high level dev? What did you do to fix it?

Ask HN: Ever felt burnt out from high level dev? What did you do to fix it?
8 by Philip-J-Fry | 5 comments on Hacker News.
Hi HN, I'm having an dilemma about my career. I'm very fortunate to be in the position I'm in, I have a very secure and well paying job. I write APIs/web services/websites for a big company. It's not something I'd call particularly challenging, it's fairly CRUDdy but there has been some interesting challenges here and there. I've manged to work my way into a more senior position in the company expecting the challenges to be greater, but it's pretty much more of the same. And to be honest, I'm feeling burnt out and bored to death. I don't know if it just means I should move companies and it's not the high level dev that's burnt me out. Or whether it is that I want a different/harder challenge. If you've felt this as a developer: Have you moved internally to another team and felt reinvigorated? Did moving companies reinvigorate you even if the work is mostly the same (e.g. writing micro services)? Has anyone moved to lower level programming to face a different challenge (e.g. embedded, game engines, etc.)? How did you do it? Has anyone worked in a company that employs both high level and low level developers (e.g. game developer with online services and a game engine, company with web services and robot firmware, etc.) and successfully moved internally to lower level development?