That's a very good point. Other fields have Continuing Education, sabbaticals, in-service training, etc. (e.g. medicine, education). But then, computers and s

That's a very good point. Other fields have Continuing Education, sabbaticals, in-service training, etc. (e.g. medicine, education). But then, computers and software change so much more rapidly--and arbitrarily--than other fields, that it's very different. Software is as much art as science, and a lot of "keeping up-to-date" with software is simply learning whatever is popular at the moment, not what is necessarily more advanced, better, or newly discovered.