[apocalyptic0n3]

> Why can't you have some hobby stuff on github ?

I see two reasons:

1. Your employment contract forbids it. My previous job had a stipulation that they reserved all rights to any related outside work and until permission was explicitly granted by the CEO who deems it is unrelated, no code written during your employment could be released. It sucked. It was part of the reason I left. But those types of contractual requirements exist

2. You don't write code as a hobby. This is me. My GitHub has a Redmine theme fork that I maintain for our installation and a simple project written in ArnoldC because it's ridiculous. I don't leave work and immediately go work some more. I'm already putting in 45-50 hours a week. When I go home, I want to read, watch TV, go to the movies, play video games, blog, etc., not code. As far as I am aware, this is common on my team. I think only a single person has anything of worth in their GitHub and several employees don't have accounts at all.

The growing trend of seeing "GitHub Account (Required)" on job applications is worrisome. Yes, it can be a good indicator if they use it, but a lot of people don't. A lot of people can't. A lot of people simply do not want to.