An Interesting Place in My Career

So I find myself wondering what to do with myself.  I have climbed every mountain in my professional life and now find myself on a vast plateau searching for something else to climb...  I have spoken with a few friends about where I am in my life and where to go but still have no answer.  Sure there have bee good suggestions, but none that have grabbed hold...

My whole life things have been laid out in front of me like a well groomed path.  School just kept progressing and I added more activities on the rare occasion that I felt I had some free time.  I then got the good job in a great location and was gaining more responsibility at a fast pace, but then the house market changed and the job vanished.  So I had to make a move...

I am now up in the Bay Area working for a great company full of amazing people.  The problem is the tasks I am doing.  Though important, there is little challenge and I only seem to be working hard because of the quantity of work and not its complexity.  Last week I did not leave work before 7pm a single night and yet what did I learn.  Just that in this line of work there is incessant documentation to avoid legal issues and the fun parts are few and far between.

Now don't feel bad for me because I still like my job and love the feeling of completion when projects are complete.  That is what drew me to this career.  It just hard when you know you can contribute more but still have to go through the motions and climb the bottom of the ladder.

I guess I need to look at filling my life with things outside of work... Any suggestions?

"The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more."