if you tend to work in one area, its easy to just turn out more of the same, change the colors, fonts. I never liked the animated line and drawings style that eventually went away. now there is more integrated into environment work I like. learning a new style could be refreshing, taking a vacation to an inspiring place, unplugging for a while. that might even be for a few months or more aka the sabbatical. 

I’m deeply in the same situation right now, but not with AE / post as I’ve let most of it go. I’m doing 98% production work these days and I’m far far more frustrated with work hours / conditions, not making what I think I should be and wanting to move on to a better levels of production, or do something else entirely. I remember being new and young and watch as folks who’d been in the game for decades go on to do other things and I’d be like why would you ? now I’m like, well why _wouldn’t_ you ? lots of things to do and experience so why stay put in one place !

S