Re:Keep up or shut up (Score 1)

It seems to me that if you really enjoy what you do, you should also enjoy keeping up and/or ahead with the evolution of your field. My experience has been almost the opposite - when I started working full time, perhaps not immediately, but after a short while I felt more compelled to learn and work on things on my own time because I like what I do, and although I am lucky to have a job where I learn quite a bit on company time, living life going through the motions and stagnating makes no sense to me. I'm always asking myself (and others) questions like "Is there a better way to do this?" Being able to do this is as important to me to making a comfortable living, but, luckily, these tend to go together.