This is the problem I have. I have a strong sense of professionalism, so when I code professionally, I put in more effort to meet a personal standard that far e

This is the problem I have. I have a strong sense of professionalism, so when I code professionally, I put in more effort to meet a personal standard that far exceeds what I do for personal projects. One simple example, if I'm writing a utility to be used by me alone, I probably don't verify input. I don't do very good error handling (if it crashes who cares), etc, but if I were hiring the lack of any of these would be a serious red flag to me in any submitted code sample. Of course there are larger personal projects were a little more care is taken, but it is a whole other level of polish that I put into professional work. I would be embarrassed to share my personal projects. That's probably actually a good sign because at least I know it should be better.