[scarface74]

I know everyone has different priorities and lives, but I have a strict rule against side projects. Between spending time with my family and friends, exercise, keeping up with technology, etc. I don’t have time. If I can’t keep abreast of technology at work, it’s time to change jobs. I will stay late and work on side low priority work related projects to learn new to me technologies.

Also, I purposefully work for small companies that are in alignment with the technologies I want to learn or be in. Another benefit to working for small companies after you have the reputation, you can really make a lot of choices when it comes to the how and you get to do as much of the stack as you want.