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My experience is no one gives a shit if it happens outside of work hours. Maybe if you can establish yourself to pseudo-celebrity status within the particular n
by notsurenymore 3y ago
My experience is no one gives a shit if it happens outside of work hours. Maybe if you can establish yourself to pseudo-celebrity status within the particular niche?
- kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 3y agoNo no, hone your skills outside of work, but use them at work.
- notsurenymore 3y agoBut there’s still the problem. If you established you career doing X and you’re preferred niche is Y, you aren’t going to get to use Y at work because it’s simply irrelevant to you’re career doing X. Let’s say in a run of the mill enterprise web developer, but I have an interest in a particular niche, say low level network programming or game development. I can hone my skills in the latter all I want, but I’ll never get the chance use them at my day job and I’ll never get a job working in that nice because they’re only interested in already established professional experts.
- fakedang 3y agoI'll put it another way. Leadership skills and communication skills are mostly a generalized skillset, but they're pretty important in any job, however specialized it is. Financial management is a skill that's kind of generic and commodities, but still important and definitely buildable if you want to start a company.