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On Prioritizing Side Projects

Mohammad Alahmadi on March 23, 2018

There are many things I want to do in my free time. These can be anything from programming projects, exploring new hobbies, or just reading a book....
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Alexandru Bucur

Ideally I would say is that if you have limited time, try getting outside your 'shell' and try new things that you usually wouldn't do at work.

You might discover you like other technologies, or find out some development ideas that you can implement in your daily work.

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Ben Halpern

Awesome. So much of my getting over some humps in this regard have been about becoming deliberate about my time and commitment to projects, as opposed to being scattered.

I wrote about some of my own learnings here:

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Mohammad Alahmadi

Thank you so much sharing! I look forward to read it tonight :)

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edA‑qa mort‑ora‑y

Pick the one that you find personally rewarding and recharges you. If it feels like work you'll burn out quickly.

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Mohammad Alahmadi

Absolutely! I've been trying to explore technologies that are completely irrelevant to work since I need a mental break from work related stuff.

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Dan Benge

...use a project from work. I rarely get to do any of the more interesting projects at work. So I bring a user story home and do the project on my own time. In that way, I'm always solving real-world problems. It has also taught me how to use mock libraries for to get data from systems (SAP, for example) that I don't have at home.

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Mohammad Alahmadi

That's brilliant idea actually. Thank you for sharing. It's absolutely more rewarding working on real world problems.

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✨ Enoch Ojonimi Daniels ♛✮

This is really amazing work out, I personally fall a victim of these problems too 😀 probably I will adopt your action plans to achieve great results

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Luke Bearl

I think this really speaks true to everyone who tries to do side projects in their spare time.