What do you all do outside of your day job to sharpen and keep up your design skills? – Info Graphic Design

Howdy yall. Just curious on what kind things you do outside of your design day jobs to keep up your skills, learn new skills, or just do design work that’s totally unrelated to your job?

At my job, the programs I use mostly are illustrator and photoshop. In terms of the technical work I do, it’s kinda the same stuff since I started this job back in September.

I’ve learned a lot since I started and don’t get me wrong, I love my job and I’m not bored, but for a while now I feel like I’ve kinda mastered the day to day work process. It’s getting more or less routine. I’ve been getting a lot of new and fun and different projects to do, but ultimately the technical side of work is feeling the same and I just wanna learn new things on my own and be able to bring those new skills to new projects and have an evolving way of doing things.

I was doing design challenges like 36 Days of Type and that helped me learn new techniques and evolve my work flow.

Any other ideas or challenges on how to improve?