10 benefits of working on side projects
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As engineers it’s important to work on side projects. There are more benefits to this than you might imagine. Here are 10 benefits:
- You’ll constantly have that fire to learn lite.
- You’ll discover new technologies and techniques that you can recommend at your day job as solutions.
- You’ll be an advocate towards a learning/sharing culture.
- You’ll become stronger at problem solving, overall a stronger engineer.
- More skills
===more value===more money. - You’ll build your confidence as an engineer even more.
- You’ll build more trust within your team, people will trust your judgement more.
- You’ll trust yourself more to make difficult decisions.
- You’ll learn that knowing everything is impossible, you’ll learn the skill to pick things up when you need them.
- You’ll learn how to learn.