I mean, if you invent Gmail, sure, you'll be richly rewarded. But the average engineer working on an average side project will not do something like that. Espe

I mean, if you invent Gmail, sure, you'll be richly rewarded. But the average engineer working on an average side project will not do something like that. Especially not during a quarterly review cycle. So then your accomplishments working 80% are compared to those working 100%. I never worked with someone who had a 20% project during my 3 years. I did try to start one myself, but gave up after 1 day.