So when I started my job 3 years ago, I went from Perl based tedious stuff, to building a database and web front end for my organisation. I decided to learn Django. That took away a lot of boring boilerplate, letting me concentrate on the create interesting stuff. The documentation is good, and its very well thought out (not what I find when I am trying out JavaScript frameworks). That helps.

Now the application is built, I get to do more tedious data cleaning, fixing all the crap data that the users put in. I don't enjoy it as much. Sometime I get a feature request that is challenging, and my interest picks up again.

I deficiently find that when I am creating something that it inspires me a lot more. Also having worked on a coupld of maintenance programming jobs before, I am not going back to that.