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If you are interested in the craft, it's hard to imagine the interest ends when you cross the threshold of the workplace on your way home. But how that interes
by buro9 10y ago
If you are interested in the craft, it's hard to imagine the interest ends when you cross the threshold of the workplace on your way home.
But how that interest is measured is more interesting. A friend of mine just creates things for his kids, another has small hacks around the home, another is playing with his music setup and creating his own pedals, I run lots of forums and the systems for them.
It doesn't have to be a "Where's your OSS contributions?", or a "Work outside of work".
You just cannot make someone deeply interested not take an interest outside of work.
The hard bit is how to detect this fundamental curiosity, because I agree strongly with others that it isn't "What are your side projects, where are your OSS contributions?". It may surface in many more subtle ways, mostly private noodling around, wondering how things work, and could they be made better.
- vertex-four 10y agoThe thing is... if you're interested in almost anything else, there's no particular expectation that you spend every possible waking hour doing it. Most hobbies, you spend maybe an hour or two a night on, if that, and spend the rest of your evenings doing something else. If you get enough flexibility to explore things you're interested in within the context of work, it seems perfectly reasonable that 40 hours a week of that is enough.
- lagadu 10y ago> If you are interested in the craft, it's hard to imagine the interest ends when you cross the threshold of the workplace on your way home. It's not that I'm not interested in programming but there are a lot of things that I'm FAR more interested in. My personal example: I love working out, I love computer games, I love snowboarding, I love geocaching and I adore playing with my car. It's extremely rare that I ever choose to dedicate my free time to developing software when I have something to do related to one of those things. I'm an experienced professional and consider myself to be pretty decent at it but when it comes to fun things I can do on my own time, it ranks abysmally low. The result? Total amount of software development that I've done outside work hours in the past year: 0 and I can't imagine it ever changing. edit: in fact the quickest way to make me stop reading a job ad is to write too much of those "we expect you to breathe xxx technology". No thanks, I will breathe it for exactly the 37 hours I'm paid for and not a single one more. Fortunately enterprise development is a nice fit for me :)
- kd0amg 10y agoit's hard to imagine the interest ends when you cross the threshold of the workplace on your way home People's interest in just about anything has a tendency to fade over the course of the first eight hours they spend on it in a day.