[piva00]

Personally I don't code on my free time. I've been writing code since I was 9 years old, it was a huge hobby for a long time but I feel no pull to code any more outside of being paid for it.

I'm very glad to have had that hobby for so long, enabling me to have a career and a diverse set of skills for this industry but the desire and drive to code as a fun activity has ceased to exist. I have developed other hobbies that are much closer to my soul and that I feel are deserving to get their time to be explored and enrich my sense of self.

> I feel like not honing one's professional skills during your time off is a little bit of a wasted opportunity.

This is all dependent on why exactly you feel that, is it because you want to chase higher and higher positions? Does that give you joy? If so, go ahead, if it's just a feeling of "keeping up with the Joneses" I'd say to reassess that, I used to think that way and through therapy I discovered that it only made me an anxious mess. I'm much happier not trying to fill up my free time with an ever changing landscape of knowledge that I "should keep on top of"... I still learn a lot, just now during my normal working hours and everything is pretty fine for what I'd want in life.