How can a developer allocate time for learning new technologies and self-education?

Eugene Zalivadnyi2015-11-04 12:09:38

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Eugene Zalivadnyi, 2015-11-04 12:09:38

There is a spherical developer in a vacuum, working in the office, 5/2, from 9:00 to 18:00. Every day he spends 3 hours on the road. At work, the workload is full, there is always something to do. The situation is such that free time for mastering a new framework remains only on weekends. And weekends are needed to relax, and not to overload the brain, right? There is also family and friends, in addition to development, they also need to devote time. You can, of course, read books on the road, but theory without practice is of little use. After work, the forces remain to eat, wash, go to bed.
Question: how to allocate time for learning new technologies and self-education? How do you do it?

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Saboteur, 2015-11-04
@saboteur_kiev

Your question sounds like you are not looking for a way out, but are listing the things that prevent you from living, trying to justify that nothing works out because you are all busy, that there is no time.
But the answer is very simple - you need to change everything. Otherwise, no way.
Long drive? Buying a car. Long by car, check maybe faster by subway. No way? Check if you can work from home, at least a couple of times a week. Quite nigga? Change your apartment closer to work. Neither one nor the other? Well, then one thing - change jobs.
If you are worried about the lack of development, then you are not sure that this job is for you forever. This means that it will need to be changed, and deep in your soul you already understood this. Well, why pull something?
At work, you agree that you will work less. Because personal problems - family, health, career.
Maybe to the detriment of the salary, or maybe it's time to talk to the management that the load is too high, and another person is needed to unload everyone and remove the risks. After all, if such a load, then how do you go on vacation? What about sick leave? And if you have a problem with your wife-child, then work 16 hours the next day? Management should prevent such risks themselves and not create a load at 8 o'clock.
In general, you need not think, but already act, and implement options. Either you stay in your current comfort zone and do nothing, or you change something. Let not today, but NOT in a month and not in a week. Think of a couple of options, and before the end of the week to talk to someone. Again, the main thing is not to find the reasons that interfere with you, but to change something in order to remove the problems.

Puma Thailand, 2015-11-04
@opium

well, pure idiocy, I have changed jobs and places of residence so many times in this life, it is obvious that you need to live 5 minutes walk from work and save three hours.

o_f, 2015-11-04
@o_f

That is why those who find time in the same conditions are more successful and faster than you. :)
And then there will be even less time, even fewer opportunities, the brain is slower, and the young are already propped up.
It is up to you to decide where to look for this time, it is unlikely that someone will say something very useful IMHO.
At work, you can not go to lunch with colleagues, but eat in 10 minutes the food that you brought with you and devote an hour to study.
In the evening, go to bed an hour later - one more hour to study.
On the road, take a tablet or laptop with the Internet, and practice what you read in the book.
On one day off - completely with the family. The second - entirely in study in a separate room.
Tell your family that now you will devote one day a week only to studying for a month. So that no one touches you and helps you reach your goal, because learning new things will give you promotion / money / prospects.
How do people learn English at the age of 30? How do people lose 20 kg at the age of 40?
They SACRIFICE something.

Dmitry Evgrafovich, 2015-11-04
@Tantacula

Instead of books, you can take a laptop on the road (if by car, transfer to public transport) and learn frameworks in practice. It's 3 hours daily. At work, from 9 to 18 without a break do you knock on the keys? What are you coding there? And why, in this case, does the senior colleague not review the code and tell you: "Hey, brother, let's wrap it all up in the pipeline pattern, otherwise it will come out dumb"? Don’t go to a peek-a-boo, social networks or a smoking room for a life to get worn out, no? And that's extra time. Theory - by the way, it is very useful when a spherical programmer gets the feeling that he does not write very beautifully, and here is just an article on Habré about the application architecture or about some pattern. Instead of the same social networks, read Habr :)
In general, it is strange that a senior colleague does not tell you what exactly needs to be tightened up. The feeling that you simply don’t have it and no one controls your programming activities (there would be a result, okay, but it doesn’t matter how it is written). In this case, you can stupidly devote 30% of your time at the workplace to self-education and no one will tell you anything (because for everyone your work is magic). Also in this case, you can change jobs. If there is an older one, ask him "what would you advise me to study next week?". I am currently freelancing and there is time for learning either between tasks or between projects. Plus, in the mornings I read and watch something for 1-2 hours (just about the time of your trip to work), today there was vue.js, for example.
And yet, programming is like a hobby and learning new things is interesting (or there is a voluntary desire to make your own code cleaner and improve your skill). And you can always find time for something interesting, but if you are engaged in self-education in programming through a stick and it is much more interesting for you to go for a walk with friends, then you can switch from programming to something more personally interesting to you, for example, a business like "organizing walks for friends on city" (figuratively, of course)?

Dimonchik, 2015-11-04
@dimonchik2013

eax.me/books-issue-13 read the comments here

Kolya Petin, 2015-11-04
@v2065925

I’m trying to stay at work for an hour for these purposes, because when I come home after work, I often don’t have the strength anymore.

Yaroslav Lyzlov, 2015-11-04
@dixoNich

I have 15 minutes to work one way, no family and no children :) So there is time for this.
Yes, and during the work I try to try something new and interesting, where possible.

Optimus, 2015-11-04
Pyan @marrk2

Before work 40 minutes, I study on weekends and on weekdays before going to bed

O Di, 2015-11-04
@insiki

To work about 45-50 minutes (on foot + by metro).
I study a little something every day. After work, this is an hour or two on average (had dinner, half an hour or an hour rested and got down to business), on weekends, on average, half a day (sometimes the whole day). From time to time I catch myself thinking that I got too carried away, it would be time to rest, and then I just do nothing in the evenings after work, since I also need to rest.