It's interesting how much advice given is "show people hiring you your programming projects". I don't find this does so much for me, because projects I want to

It's interesting how much advice given is "show people hiring you your programming projects". I don't find this does so much for me, because projects I want to work in in my spare time don't have any relation to the job I do. Now, perhaps that might be my failure in managing my career, but I don't know about that. Now, those things might be _interesting_, but they're not as immediately impactful as "I made an SPA for my personal site using React & Redux, so I'm ready to use React & Redux to make SPAs at work". Very few people are hiring, for example, to make Emacs packages, generative art, write anything in Lisp, or a cigar box guitar. And there's something exciting about doing the things I like only as much as I like them -- if I had to make a dozen cigar box guitars every week, I wouldn't enjoy it as much as I do the ones I have in progress.