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I'm not convinced that being "more current more quickly" is going to boost your productivity but it will probably boost your paycheck if you're willing to job-h

by biztos 5y ago

I'm not convinced that being "more current more quickly" is going to boost your productivity but it will probably boost your paycheck if you're willing to job-hop.

jacquesm 5y ago
Compared to most other fields IT moves relatively fast, learning is a part of being active in this field if not you'll never be able to make a career out of it even if you stay in the same place. Very rarely do you find companies where the tech doesn't meaningfully change over the period of a lifetime's employment, and that by itself is very rare if only due to the speed with which companies come into being, merge, split or get acquired and do wholesale technology changes. IT and learning go hand in hand.
- biztos 5y ago
  > IT and learning go hand in hand. I couldn't agree more. But learning twice as many new frameworks twice as fast is, in my opinion, unlikely to give you a net gain in productivity. Unless your job is to use twice as many frameworks as the other guy, in which case congratulations on your employment at Google. /s Every professional should be learning new things as they go along. But you're not going to learn everything, and being good at This Thing Here also takes a lot of concentration, so I suggest that picking your skill-acquisition battles and diving deeper into some of the new things will make you more productive than having a larger set of latest-greatest notches on your belt.
  - jacquesm 5y ago
    Ah I see, ok, but that's not what I meant. I meant: if you are going to spend 300 hours of learning time versus 200 to learn the same content then you can spend the other 100 hours on something that is billable. People tend to not want to pay for time spent learning so that's an investment on the part of the learner, and a smaller investment with a higher pay-off translates into a better ROI.

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I'm not convinced that being "more current more quickly" is going to boost your productivity but it will probably boost your paycheck if you're willing to job-h

by biztos 5y ago

I'm not convinced that being "more current more quickly" is going to boost your productivity but it will probably boost your paycheck if you're willing to job-hop.

jacquesm 5y ago
Compared to most other fields IT moves relatively fast, learning is a part of being active in this field if not you'll never be able to make a career out of it even if you stay in the same place. Very rarely do you find companies where the tech doesn't meaningfully change over the period of a lifetime's employment, and that by itself is very rare if only due to the speed with which companies come into being, merge, split or get acquired and do wholesale technology changes. IT and learning go hand in hand.
- biztos 5y ago
  > IT and learning go hand in hand. I couldn't agree more. But learning twice as many new frameworks twice as fast is, in my opinion, unlikely to give you a net gain in productivity. Unless your job is to use twice as many frameworks as the other guy, in which case congratulations on your employment at Google. /s Every professional should be learning new things as they go along. But you're not going to learn everything, and being good at This Thing Here also takes a lot of concentration, so I suggest that picking your skill-acquisition battles and diving deeper into some of the new things will make you more productive than having a larger set of latest-greatest notches on your belt.
  - jacquesm 5y ago
    Ah I see, ok, but that's not what I meant. I meant: if you are going to spend 300 hours of learning time versus 200 to learn the same content then you can spend the other 100 hours on something that is billable. People tend to not want to pay for time spent learning so that's an investment on the part of the learner, and a smaller investment with a higher pay-off translates into a better ROI.