Hello ive been working 10 years as a test automation engineer, working with multiple tools and languages, but specifically cucumber, nodejs, and gitlab. I dont want to stop my current career or switch or manage anyone, I prefer working in my current role and want to do so until retirement. But im not sure what to do about my current mental health and lack of motivation. I used to enjoy coding and problem solving, now im more worried constantly about being unable to solve problems, layoffs, story points, and keeping up appearances. Ive already raised some of my concerns with my boss who told me i shouldnt be worried about anything and that im on track and doing my best. I think it may just be the way im thinking about job, the mental state im in, as opposed to anything actually wrong with my job. I did a huge project for the company, but that was about 1 year and a half ago and it feels like ive been just doing maintenence since. My boss keeps saying we’re going to do another project this year, but he says a lot of things and we start experimental tasks that dont seem to go anywhere.
I guess im just asking for general advice or for people to just give an opinion on the situation i just described. If other people have felt similarly at the 10 year mark, knowing that would probably help a lot 