I've spent most of my teenage years tinkering around with programming, afterwards I spent 4 years pursuing my CS degree.

I worked as a tutor for 2 years, and a software engineer for 2 years.

Now, I got a job in a field that's not related to software engineering, let alone computer science, getting this job instead of a software engineering one has a lot of reasons and is not worth getting into to be honest.

Recently, I started to feel bad, really bad, because I was feeling like I've been slowly drifting away from software engineering, and all of the hard work I've made and the time I spent learning it is going to waste.

I want to start working on a side project but I no idea comes to mind!

Any tips to cope with this, what would of you done if you were in my place?