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I'm semi seriously contemplating doing 2-4 weeks of work to get up to speed with a weird technology because if I did that I might find it easy to pitch myself to someone who isn't actively hiring. Probably not a smart move, but perhaps a very interesting move.

Opportunities have costs. They also have benefits. One evaluates and decides.

Shrug.

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Voluntarily - it's awesome. I'm trying to code out of office as much as possible - doing toy projects or checking on interesting open-source code. The problem, from my point of view, is that they think it's acceptable to demand those hours without even talking to a real person, but rather as a trivial part of pre-evaluation. It's ugly.

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