If you’re going to do a side thing, make it about learning and helping someone with fewer resources. I used to help a local outdoors club with some PHP and LAM

If you’re going to do a side thing, make it about learning and helping someone with fewer resources. I used to help a local outdoors club with some PHP and LAMP stack dev for pittance an hour, but it was fun, I didn’t use any of this tech in my day job, and I felt I was helping something I really cared about. In the end too it broadened my dev problem solving skills.