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by falcolas 3990 days ago
You missed the important part of that statement, the "in their spare time".

Learning and practicing on the job is one thing, expecting it in the remaining 1/3 of your life is too much.

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If you LOVE something - you do it in your "spare" time. That was the core of my point. I will take a dentist, butcher, developer who LOVES their work in such a way that the line between work and fun is blurred over someone who is working for the weekend - any day!

You can be a fine developer who just clocks in and out. But if I had a choice (and sometime I don't). I would choose the guy who loves what they do and does it in their "spare" time.