> And I no longer know what to do. My day-to-day job has an expiration date. It could be 5 years, it could be 15.

If you can still hold for 5 years, you haven't burnt out, you just need a break.

I'm burnt out from software engineering and I have been working on an exit plan for the past year, still a couple months to go. I'd literally rather drive an Uber (being hyperbolic here) than write a single line of code on a regular SWE job. I still enjoy the art of programming computers, I just don't want to be a professional software engineer any more, and AI can ** my **. That's what burnout means.