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From someone who’ve been 23 years in the industry, go out, have fun, and build a network. Your skills will not take you further, your network will.
You don't want to be 40 and an expert in some legacy technology that even the trailing edge companies are phasing out.
I do the same on weekends. 1 hour, every day learning grind.
I think it's important only to be aware new things, definitely not master. You may even only need to read an article or two on a new tool to grok its general use case and see if it actually offers anything new, or if is just a new flavour of the same old.
Maybe I am just a fast learner but I definitely see no value in learning every new tool outright. I keep an eye on it, but once you separate the wheat from the chaff there is really only one or two fundamental tools worth trying out every few months. Of those, maybe only one a year worth diving into.
The job market is whatever, you can't get meaningful experience on tools you don't use on projects anyway. So just do a week of afternoon deep dives before an interview and you'll be fine.
From someone who’ve been 23 years in the industry, go out, have fun, and build a network. Your skills will not take you further, your network will.
However failure to update your skills will eventually catch up with you if you are in a technical role. You don't want to be 40 and an expert in some legacy technology that even the trailing edge companies are phasing out.
I was scolded quite a bit for not padding estimates early on. I argued that I'd be wasting time if I didn't pad. But the damage from a missed estimate is much worse, and if I had extra time I was expected to read a book, watch a movie, play Dota or something.
As it is, the weekly sprint plan is what you can get done by Wednesday. Silently add one non-scheduled item to cater for Parkinson's Law. If you're done for the week, then feel free to read books or refactor or something.
During the work day I need to provide results not just learn
As other mentioned networking is very important I recently open up and the result is beyond my expectation i was working alone for years, but now i am a technical team leader on big company all this happen was because of networking, to your surprise i am a self-thought developer and the only one without cs degree within an elite programmers who are graduated from top university with high GPA, i get out of my comfort…
Congrats on your success!