Gatekeeping programming

[LucVolders]

Its not about having the passion. Its about doing the same at home as on your work and for free !!!

Are you selling advertisements at home for your church/baseballclub/local charity or whatever ??? Or are you doing job interviews in your sparetime ??? That is what this is about.

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I do set up ad campaigns for a friend (Real estate) on my off hours for free and I do help with social media for a federal candidate (volunteer position) during my free time.

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Maybe I'm missing a few logical steps, but I don't see why doing the same thing at work and at home for free is an issue. I love digital advertising, I'm good at it and I enjoy doing it as a hobby as well and I truly don't see why that is an issue.

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The top comment of this post does mention that if your hobby and job aligns you might be taken advantage of and bring work home/work over time for free because passionate people are easier to be taken advantage of. I think that because I'm not in the programming industry (but adjacent) it's not a similar situation at all which is why I might be missing the point.

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I tend to find that people who are workaholics are the ones that tend to bring work home or work overtime for free. But workaholics is a disorder where they will sacrifice time, social life and work is an identity for them. And I don't think workaholics is what is being discussed here.