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"working extra hours at something will make you better than someone who doesn't work extra hours"... of course.
by smcg 10y ago
"working extra hours at something will make you better than someone who doesn't work extra hours"... of course.
- sergiotapia 10y agoIt's a secret so use wisely! Don't crash the market!
- Namrog84 10y agoI don't fully agree with this quote/statement. There is something to be said about proper rest and non work hours as your brain does it things. I'm sure most people here can attest to the anecdotal proof of having a difficult problem and leaving it. Then it suddenly coming to you some point later during non work. This also applies to developing skills. Not just problem solving.
- NetStrikeForce 10y agoI'm hoping you're being sarcastic, because in my little world that has never been true. My observations say the correlation is pretty much the other way around: You work more hours because you can't get the stuff done during your allotted time. You're not learning new stuff, you're doing the same you've been doing the previous 8 hours of that: Struggle. Of course there is brilliant people that just enjoy their work and stay longer every day; but staying longer is not the reason why they're brilliant. Being brilliant, specially on a trade that has a strong creative component, it's not something you can always train. Or at least not by repeating the same tasks over and over.
- corobo 10y agoI think is this more "working extra hours at something" where something is "generic coding" rather than "a specific task I'm working on at work"
- smcg 10y agoI think you misinterpreted my statement. My point was that working on side projects in your own time is the equivalent of working free overtime.
- NetStrikeForce 10y agoThank you both for the clarifications! I see your point and I agree that side projects could help increasing your skills and/or knowledge. However, I'm not sure they're an effective way of doing that or if we [tend to use mostly the skills we have / tend to learn skills that are so different than our daily jobs that can't be applied or aren't useful for professional development]