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Another (very) late forties dev here too. Your use of the word "burn" concerns me. I'd prefer the word "invest". As I've said before on this subject, if you're
by 3chelon 10y ago
Another (very) late forties dev here too. Your use of the word "burn" concerns me. I'd prefer the word "invest".
As I've said before on this subject, if you're careful what shiny new thing you bother to learn, and restrict yourself to doing it every couple of years rather than every weekend, I find the family and kids will never notice.
And anyway, at our age time flies so damn fast the kids'll be grown up by next weekend anyway :)
- andyjohnson0 10y agoGood point. Appreciate your concern, but I wasn't being clear. By time to "burn" I was referring to all the time I had in my twenties: when spending an evening or a day or a weekend doing nothing in particular didn't seem like much of a waste. Whereas now, "me-time" comes in much smaller units (maybe an hour after the kids are in bed and before I get tired). And I'm very careful to invest it: I recently spent eight months studying UX on Coursera, and am getting back into electronics and Arduino after a break, for example. I just don't have big blocks of time any more. Certainly not whole weekends.
- dwc 10y agoEarly fifties here. > Your use of the word "burn" concerns me. I'd prefer the word "invest". I agree, but... sometimes it really is "burn". I don't keep up with front-end tech these days. If/when I need to work with it I'll learn it, and not before. If I spent time getting up to a real working knowledge now, there's every chance that in, say, 4 years when I needed to work in that space that I'd have to start learning from scratch again rather than brush up. I do spend time learning new (to me) things, but I'm very selective. I devote most of my time to learning things that will give me alternate ways of doing things, rather than learning every nut and bolt of the latest framework.