I feel that you should do some coding in your personal time, just because that's how you keep your skills sharp, but you should not do work-related stuff after hours. You belong to the company from 9AM to 5PM, but if they want you to work after that they can damn well pay you time and a half for it. Your time is your own, you owe the company exactly as much as they pay you for.
Actually this is a good point. Many of the people that work in the field are very surprised when I tell them I'm working on things related to the job, after clocking out. The thing is that I don't do it for the company, but for myself, to expand on what I learned during the day, so I don't really thing they owe me anything. I guess the knowledge will help me in the future, no matter which job I have. Thank you for your input.
Yeah, I was pushing more against the expectation that you ought to do work-related programming in your free time and are a failure if you don't. Would have been nice if that had been what you said. If you do your skill-building using work code, I can't really argue against that, but I still prefer to work on things I can show off on Github.
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I feel that you should do some coding in your personal time, just because that's how you keep your skills sharp, but you should not do work-related stuff after hours. You belong to the company from 9AM to 5PM, but if they want you to work after that they can damn well pay you time and a half for it. Your time is your own, you owe the company exactly as much as they pay you for.
Actually this is a good point. Many of the people that work in the field are very surprised when I tell them I'm working on things related to the job, after clocking out. The thing is that I don't do it for the company, but for myself, to expand on what I learned during the day, so I don't really thing they owe me anything. I guess the knowledge will help me in the future, no matter which job I have. Thank you for your input.
Yeah, I was pushing more against the expectation that you ought to do work-related programming in your free time and are a failure if you don't. Would have been nice if that had been what you said. If you do your skill-building using work code, I can't really argue against that, but I still prefer to work on things I can show off on Github.