Exactly. Everyone is free to choose his priorities. If you priorities are family, hobbies, or any myriad of things, that's amazing! But it will be probably be a

Exactly. Everyone is free to choose his priorities. If you priorities are family, hobbies, or any myriad of things, that's amazing! But it will be probably be a bit harder to advance in the field than someone who lives and breathes code every day. That's just obvious... I find myself right at the middle, I don't code much in my free time but I do like reading programming books and learning about new topics and paradigms while only doing basic exercises now and then. I catch up on new technologies even if I'm not using them at the moment.