Competent lawyers, doctors, engineers, and teachers spend time improving and honing their craft through continuing professional development (CPD). Sometimes it

Competent lawyers, doctors, engineers, and teachers spend time improving and honing their craft through continuing professional development (CPD). Sometimes it is required by licensing and professional bodies for those occupations, other times it is optional. Sometimes it is compensated by employers and other times it is not. It can include: participating in conferences, meetings at informal local professional organizations, independent study through journals or other professional publications, coaching/mentorship, and personal time spent working on career-related research and development. I expect my doctor to spend at least some time during the week while not seeing patients and attending to administrative tasks browsing professional journals to stay abreast of the the state of the medical art. I don't understand why there is a reflexive revulsion to software developers having a github where they throw up stuff they've tried out. Unless software development is less of a professional occupation and more like wage-slave drudgery. Grocery store cashiers don't typically spend their down time reading the quarterly "Proceedings of the Supermarket Checkout Professional" to stay up-to-date on cash register developments. Civil engineers do typically read civil engineering journals in their spare time, at least all of the ones I know do. A few nights per week, for a little while, they'll sit in their recliner after dinner and page through a civil engineering magazine and occasionally jot things down in a notebook that interest them. I don't think programmers are exposed to a level of stress that requires more "rest and recovery" than a physician.