>I'd highly recommend giving something like game dev a try, even if it's just as a side project. Handmadehero.org has great content. It's a breath of fresh air if you're coming from something like web development.

Thanks for the resource :) Going to have a look. I am not a web developer, I am very bad at it for whatever reason. I fled the web a long time ago for the big data landscape. I almost ended up creating physical simulations of boats, but I missed that boat somehow, still a bit sad about it.