Importance of Side Projects

Re:Importance of Side Projects by jswinghammer on Sunday May 29, 2011 @10:17PM (#2598238)

I've found that most of my coworkers over the years don't really react very well to the idea of me having a side project-unless they have one themselves. I think they believe it's pretty strange to making something not work related.

I'm not sure I've worked with many programmers at all who read on the side let alone make much of anything. Maybe my experience is just weird.

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Re:Importance of Side Projects by pkteison on Sunday May 29, 2011 @11:58PM (#2598447)

No, it's normal at big companies or non programming firms. Spare mental capacity is devoted to sports teams and American Idol.

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Re:Importance of Side Projects by jasonlotito on Monday May 30, 2011 @09:53AM (#2599367)

Or family and friends, or dealing with the bureaucracy of the craptastic health care that is against providing your autistic son anything besides false sentiment and lies. Unfortunately, the tech industry places too much value on things like Twitter.

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