I don't see how anyone codes for a living then goes home to code personal projects. Power to you guys, but it's like an electrician coming home everyday and rewiring his house with a new type of wire.

I code after work almost every night. On average, it's about 25 hrs/wk. The main reasons are:

- the codebase at my job and the type of I'm doing sucks
- I want to learn new technologies/stay current (not really afforded time for that at work)
- I don't want to work for someone else for the rest of my life
- I don't have children, which gives me more time to do my own thing than a lot of our peers

If you have good personal projects it makes you more marketable. It's great for honing your craft.

I don't get as much code done at home now they I have a family. But I can spend about an hour or 2 on personal projects in languages I don't use at work 😁.

It's the difference between being a senior developer that actually knows their craft, and the guy who got made senior because he was in the same company for 5 years

I do electrical engineering on the side as a hobby, completely self taught. Its still in the realm of what I do normally but I don't have to touch a damn computer unless I want to.

For me, coding is my hobby as well as my job & I consider myself lucky to be in that situation. Not everyone get paid to do something they love.

My job gives me the freedom to be creative so I do find that I don't code as much at home anymore because I get my 'fix' at work.

I used to. But the code base I am working in has left me emotionally vulnerable and I am taking some time for me.

@lreading i totally agree with your points, I also do a lot of open source development (not on my devRant linked gh tough) to get to know other workflows and socialise with people...

I can't see any other way to live. I have a family too.

@deadpixel this is a very good point. I enjoy it so much that I live it.

@lreading glad to read the first point , same here

When I come home i just continue work until I can't keep my eyes open...

@projektaquarius I get what you're saying

This is the only way to keep yourself marketable😀👍

@lreading Ive also noticed that my home coding picks up when my work coding is less interesting. Luckily it comes and goes in waves, and I can get some satisfaction on the clock too.

@mclark1129 Same here. I'm just an IT guy because I'm finishing up my undergrad next year. My boss has let me do some small bug fixes in our internal website that the employees use. It's an Intranet web-interface. That bores me actually, so I go home and work on things more difficult. For instance, right now I'm working on a GUI for generating HTML. I don't know why I started it, but it's pretty satisfying to see some progress made on something that difficult.

@deadpixel that's not always the case. In fact I would argue that would only be relevant in a company that sells software. If your company's primary application uses Knockout, no amount of Angular programming in your free time is going to make you a senior developer. That being said you also don't get to be a senior software developer by being a master coder without putting time into your company unless you negotiate up.