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Re:The Importance of Deep Work and the 30-Hour Method for Le... by JaredMcFey on Saturday May 26, 2018 @03:32PM (#17163838)
I’d call it investment. If you invest time into a new skill that you can use to switch jobs or get promoted, it’s very worth putting in the time even if it has no direct monetary value at first
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Re:The Importance of Deep Work and the 30-Hour Method for Le... by adamnemecek on Saturday May 26, 2018 @03:49PM (#17163918)
I agree one hundred percent. There isn’t really a failure mode to this. Worst case you lose some money, but like when you rejoin the workforce you’ll be somewhere else. Right now I’m like 20x the programmer I was when I quit.
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