alt Hacker NewsHave you considered academia?
I wrote code for a digital agency for a while and it was cool but making stuff for huge corporations wasn't exactly inspiring to me.
So I got a job doing basically the same for a university library. Now I wake up every morning knowing that I'm working to make information available to the public for free. And my work is basically an answer to "What would you do with code if it didn't have to be monetarily profitable in any way?" every single day.
You could probably find a position doing something very similar to what you've been doing (if you want) but in a very different environment.
My first job out of college (1990s) was as a programmer in a university research lab. It didn't pay as well as industry, but it was enormously rewarding in so many other ways. I had a ton of autonomy; I got to speak face-to-face with my users and solve their problems; I got to talk to interesting smart people every day; I got a close up view of some super interesting research that I would have known nothing about, etc.
I don't know how this kind of job works today. My salary was somewhat less than I would've made in industry at the time (pre-dot-com), but now it seems that universities would likely pay much less than industry.