This is normal for me. Throughout my career, I have constantly sought to learn new technologies and paradigms in my spare time and then utilize those skills professionally. This whole cycle occurs for me usually in less than a year. Right now, I am rapidly coming up to speed in functional programming languages because of not only their elegance, but the multi-core utilization problem they solve (more on this to follow). Functional programming is What I want to do and is probably What I can be paid to do, but is not yet something I can do well so I need to Learn more. I'm working on it....