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"Learn about new tech" is only one of a great many other things. Cultivating your relationships professionally is also "work", as is talking to your customers,
by TameAntelope 5y ago
"Learn about new tech" is only one of a great many other things.
Cultivating your relationships professionally is also "work", as is talking to your customers, reviewing and discussing code, writing about and showing others what you've built, keeping your resume and interview skills sharp, staring up at the ceiling and thinking about work, etc.
- giantg2 5y agoYeah, and most of that similarly doesn't count when it's time for the chips to fall.
- haliskerbas 5y agoI wonder if the same is true for other professions as well? Athletes must have to design their entire lives around a few minutes of competition. Surgeons need to train for years, and all that is evaluated is the patient outcome in the operating room. Lawyers need to train, study, and prepare, and only the court outcome matters. Maybe this is an unfair parallel, but I cannot see why.
- TameAntelope 5y agoVery few lawyers, proportionally, ever enter a courtroom. The vast majority of "lawyer" work never sees a courtroom at all.
- giantg2 5y agoMaybe that is a fair comparison for IT as a profit center. If seems that wouldn't work so well for IT as a cost center.
- TameAntelope 5y agoMy point is it absolutely does "count"; what your boss values is not what's best for your career. That's extremely short-term thinking.
- giantg2 5y agoI guess I've only ever had a job and never a career.