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Because of this, I at one point spent maybe about 15 hours putting together a small project specifically to use as a code sample. This code sample, which again took maybe about 15 hours to put together, served its purpose for years.
To avoid this tiny amount of easy work that has such a high potential upside is, to be frank, just dumb and lazy.
> I ran 50+ miles a week. I pushed myself to excel. To excel within the boundaries of the time and life-balance I had set for myself. Part of excelling at your job is learning new stuff - something that I am absolutely certain you do all the time, even if you only do it during work hours. Maybe this week you are starting a new project and need to learn Vue. Publish those 100 lines of code to GitHub. Just like that yo…
Meh, I agree in general and believe in work/life balance but you don’t need a huge side project. Just take a few scripts written already, write a readme, and an hour a year per script tuning them up and adding tests. Maybe a code golf problem or two. In short, if you can’t find four hours a year to put into your career, maybe you just aren’t interested. I think of it as page two of my resume.
I really don't have much of a github presence, but then again I'm not a day-to-day coder at work. The presence I do have I created in just a couple of hours and I could easily beef it up to something respectable by spending a couple of hours a month on it.
With that said, I don't make any of those projects public since they embarrass me. No unit tests typically, poor documentation, etc.
With that said as a hiring manager I would never penalize someone for not having open source projects.
What if you work 16 hours a day because your current employer is highly dysfunctional and you are constantly putting in hail mary efforts to save them from themselves? How is one supposed to have time for side projects then?
By quitting. 16 hours? What the fuck.
Having been poor most of my life and worked full-time since I was 15 years old (with an odd break or two), I can tell you that that is a luxury most people do not have.
> I ran 50+ miles a week. I pushed myself to excel. To excel within the boundaries of the time and life-balance I had set for myself. Part of excelling at your job is learning new stuff - something that I am absolutely certain you do all the time, even if you only do it during work hours. Maybe this week you are starting a new project and need to learn Vue. Publish those 100 lines of code to GitHub. Just like that yo…
Architects should have side projects they can show.
Mechanical engineers should have side projects they can show (e.g. modifying cars, robotics, etc).
And so on.
It's funny that the tech industry is so insistent on side projects. I mean - would you hire a marketing person based on their 'side projects' or a corporate lawyer purely based on their pro-bono work? Likewise, who on earth asks a building contractor if they have any side projects? You would ask for references or find a contractor via someone you know. What about recruiters themselves? How does one judge if a person…
Meh, I agree in general and believe in work/life balance but you don’t need a huge side project. Just take a few scripts written already, write a readme, and an hour a year per script tuning them up and adding tests. Maybe a code golf problem or two. In short, if you can’t find four hours a year to put into your career, maybe you just aren’t interested. I think of it as page two of my resume.