[LukeB_UK]

I love what I do and really enjoy contributing to what the company I work for does (web based education software). But I absolutely don't rewrite bits of the codebase or develop new features in my free time.

I love programming and working out how to solve a problem, but if it something my employer makes money off then they can give me the time to fix it. In my own time, I work on my own projects and challenges. Be it the automation bot I have running in my house or the games that me and a few friends create.

Doing work stuff in your own time can - and does - lead to the expectation that you'll do it more, so the business accounts for that and will possibly even count it against others that don't do it.