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by andrewstuart2
1842 days ago
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> But don't do work in your free time. Don't fix bugs for your employer, don't learn stuff you need to learn for your employer. What hammered this home for me after years of loving my job and thinking about work outside of work, was how little ROI that investment has actually had, compared to how much value it's added for my employers. Now don't get me wrong, I'm pretty happy with my career progress so far, and my love of my job, and learning outside business hours, is a major part of that. That said, though, I can learn a lot of the same things while trying to invest the time itself in something of my own, where worst case scenario I get the same learning out of it, my employer and my career both still benefit, and I get to choose the direction myself. There's at least a chance, though, that I could produce some extra income, and maybe even build something sustainable on the side where I can personally see a much higher fraction of the ROI, rather than it disappearing somewhere into the enterprise. |
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