It depends on how you spend that time. Studing hard pays off, slacking off - not.
This should be a common knowledge. It more or less boils down to this and not status or race...
People shouldnt blog, unless they are going to do hard work making the content useful.
People shouldnt be a contractor, unless they have fantastic skills in a sector.
If you are going to work hard and think hard, you will have success in nearly any market.
If you copypasted the example android Hello World app, you arent going to succeed in the programming market.
I realize I am not in tune with times, but it somewhat irks me that a lot of (generally) younger folk at work want to blog about every single task they've accomplished or assigned to. Often turning these seemingly routine tasks into heroic efforts described in the blog postings. I guess it's called career growth. :)
Meetings? I had the discussion/outcomes in the blog. Tricky SQL or weird edge case decision? I blogged it.
A few months after I left someone said "thanks for writing that - it's been a huge help in figuring out why some of the stuff was done the way it was done". Same person who'd laughed at me for wasting my time. :)
What I was referring to though were public blog postings in teh interwebs. And because they are public, you can’t often include details that would make them usable as a documentation in a way internal blog like yours would work.
As an internal tool for documenting what’s been done, or for debriefing. I think blog etc. is just as good as other methods. It’s the public ones where I sometimes wonder how much they add to pool of noise and useless information which makes it so much harder to find good information.
Or I just need to improve on my googling-fu! ;)
From twitter posts, it seems like they know their crap is the same as everyone else, but they want the Adsense money.
Idk, twitter Personal Finance is a cesspool of shitty adsense/amazon affiliate filled blogs.
> twitter Personal Finance is a cesspool of shitty adsense/amazon affiliate filled blogs
Why are you reading it then?
I tried getting into twitter, but it turned out to be spam.
This is so far from the truth that it'd be laughable if it wasn't so sad.