I am a believer of the Root Cause Analysis. Ask "How, What, Why" until you can dissect it with no further to go. Well, I am a frontend developer ready for new challenges!
I was in a similar conundrum a couple of years back. A lot of my co-developers would spend their personal time coding, maintaining a good github profile, working on new tech that they were not using as a professional, and so on. While I did not deem it necessary- after all that's work-life balance. I used to go back home to pursue my hobbies, recreational stuff, personality improvement, yada yada yada. But three years into this industry, I realise how far left behind I was. While I was enjoying life out of work, the software industry with it's sleepless, passionate engineers boomed way ahead. That's when I realised this- If I have to sustain here, I have to keep coding. If you want to sustain and progress in your career as an IT professional( (specially when you are a junior), you have to sweat it out. Sure nurses don't go around giving shots to their neighbours, but again that's a different industry altogether. You sleep longer here, and there is a new JavaScript framework causing rage amidst nerds.
So my suggestion is, although you don't have to give every breathe of your life sitting and coding, do take some extra efforts out of office to develop new skills or dig deeper into what you are already working on. Allot, say a couple of hours each day for it and then go back to chilling or whatever else that is you like.
Thank you for your input. I do agree that if you want to progress you need to sacrifice some of your free time, but I don't think a few extra hours of code daily, after you've been working for another 8-9 is a realistic goal. I do feel your pain, take a break from coding for a few months and when you're back, there are at least two "must know" frameworks :)).
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I was in a similar conundrum a couple of years back. A lot of my co-developers would spend their personal time coding, maintaining a good github profile, working on new tech that they were not using as a professional, and so on. While I did not deem it necessary- after all that's work-life balance. I used to go back home to pursue my hobbies, recreational stuff, personality improvement, yada yada yada. But three years into this industry, I realise how far left behind I was. While I was enjoying life out of work, the software industry with it's sleepless, passionate engineers boomed way ahead. That's when I realised this- If I have to sustain here, I have to keep coding. If you want to sustain and progress in your career as an IT professional( (specially when you are a junior), you have to sweat it out. Sure nurses don't go around giving shots to their neighbours, but again that's a different industry altogether. You sleep longer here, and there is a new JavaScript framework causing rage amidst nerds.
So my suggestion is, although you don't have to give every breathe of your life sitting and coding, do take some extra efforts out of office to develop new skills or dig deeper into what you are already working on. Allot, say a couple of hours each day for it and then go back to chilling or whatever else that is you like.
Thank you for your input. I do agree that if you want to progress you need to sacrifice some of your free time, but I don't think a few extra hours of code daily, after you've been working for another 8-9 is a realistic goal. I do feel your pain, take a break from coding for a few months and when you're back, there are at least two "must know" frameworks :)).