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Programming was my hobby like the other person, I also now work as a software developer so my hobby now is walking. I don’t want to look at a screen after work.
I’ve had countless hobbies though (ADHD) and to name a few:
I guess what i enjoy is learning new things and sinking money into them haha
The biggest thing I don't like about working in the tech industry is that you're expected to make your job your hobby. If you're not developing yourself in your free time, you can feel like you're falling behind. And jobs expect you to keep up with all the monthly trends that come out.
I can only speak from personal experience and that is limited as I’ve only been at one company, which is less than 10 employees where we take on clients as needed.
Here there is no expectation to be studying at home, unless you’re not progressing as you would expect. In fact my boss told me that it’s good that I don’t have the brain power at home as it means I am using it at work which I am being paid for.
The same for the technologies too. Current tech stack is C# .net with GraphQL, and React Typescript for the client. They take the approach that we won’t try every new shiny framework that comes out and we will offer long term support to our clients and thus we will work consistently across all our projects and they get refined over time.
So if my first project utilises a useful hook or component that would be carried through to the next project. So each new project starts as a copy of our last project.
That way I could go and work on an app they made before I started but I would be able to pick it up quickly as everything is consistent.
Not sure if I explained that well.