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Great salespeople aren’t expected to run lemonade stands after work. “You’re so good at sales, how come you don’t want to sell something in the evening? There m
by pavlov 4y ago
Great salespeople aren’t expected to run lemonade stands after work. “You’re so good at sales, how come you don’t want to sell something in the evening? There must be something you’re itching to sell to your neighbors.”
Software engineers seem unique among professionals that you’re expected to maintain a hobbyist body of work that’s also your professional calling card.
- donatj 4y agoI think that applies to a lot of creative industries. Certainly when I was looking to be a designer some 20 years ago you were expected to maintain a portfolio. I don’t even mean in that sense though, I just don’t understand having a skill like that and not using it for fun. For what it’s worth, the best salespeople I know have almost no purely home life and are taking calls and making deals all hours of the day.
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- goodpoint 4y agoStill, hobby projects are not a portfolio.
- donatj 4y agoThey are when you haven't other things you can show show.
- hef19898 4y agoAssuming you treat your creative job also as a hobby, while nt doing so is also perfectly ok, doesn't mean your work has to be public, right?
- Transfinity 4y agoI will occasionally file bug reports or even submit fixes to open source projects as part of doing my job. As an engineer, one of my responsibilities is to maintain the commons - without it I would be much less productive. On the other hand I have a lot of autonomy in my work, a chill boss and a team that doesn't need to crunch. If someone I report to got grumpy I would stop, and I definitely don't do this on my own time.