First of all, I don't think that question should trouble you. You've worked on that project for several years. To me that's quite an achievement. I've been working on a project for more than ten years myself and I know that situation.
I never found the motivation to follow one of the many online learning sites, so if some technology is interesting to me, I usually try to create a side-project. Most of the time I choose something that is related to my day-job because that's easier to me. Taught myself to develop Eclipse plug-ins that way(which then became something WE heavily use at Work)
Thanks for sharing your thoughts! I think in a lot of careers, but particularly in tech, there's a sort of pressure to keep up to date with new developments.
I see this impact newer devs particularly hard ("How can anyone learn Javascript? There's a new framework every week!") but it's a pressure that I've mostly managed to keep in check.
I like the idea of picking side projects that are related to your main one. I think that's probably a good way to pick up new skills around a comfortable framework of stuff you already know? And then as you say, you might end up learning something that directly improves your day to day.
Small clarification: I've been a dev for seven years, but my current project is "only" the last four.
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First of all, I don't think that question should trouble you. You've worked on that project for several years. To me that's quite an achievement. I've been working on a project for more than ten years myself and I know that situation.
I never found the motivation to follow one of the many online learning sites, so if some technology is interesting to me, I usually try to create a side-project. Most of the time I choose something that is related to my day-job because that's easier to me. Taught myself to develop Eclipse plug-ins that way(which then became something WE heavily use at Work)
Thanks for sharing your thoughts! I think in a lot of careers, but particularly in tech, there's a sort of pressure to keep up to date with new developments.
I see this impact newer devs particularly hard ("How can anyone learn Javascript? There's a new framework every week!") but it's a pressure that I've mostly managed to keep in check.
I like the idea of picking side projects that are related to your main one. I think that's probably a good way to pick up new skills around a comfortable framework of stuff you already know? And then as you say, you might end up learning something that directly improves your day to day.
Small clarification: I've been a dev for seven years, but my current project is "only" the last four.