Comments on: It’s not your employer’s job to keep you at the top of your game https://wallylawless.com/its-not-your-employers-job-to-keep-you-at-the-top-of-your-game/ A Day in the Life of a Programmer Wed, 04 Dec 2013 01:58:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Randy https://wallylawless.com/its-not-your-employers-job-to-keep-you-at-the-top-of-your-game/comment-page-1/#comment-13775 Mon, 18 Nov 2013 21:25:59 +0000 http://wallylawless.com/?p=303#comment-13775 For sure.

That they mention only being able to go to this one because it’s in their back yard got me thinking, though – there also might be a regional difference at work here. My sense is that a lot of people I follow in the US go to conferences more than those in Canada. I wonder if any of that is to do with cost – in the US $250 gets you from one coast to another and back. Up here, I think that gets you from Toronto to Montreal and back, if there’s a sale.

It might also just be that I follow a different crowd of Americans than I do Canadians.

]]> By: Wally https://wallylawless.com/its-not-your-employers-job-to-keep-you-at-the-top-of-your-game/comment-page-1/#comment-13743 Sat, 16 Nov 2013 03:53:31 +0000 http://wallylawless.com/?p=303#comment-13743 In reply to Randy.

Absolutely! It’s typically in an employer’s best interest to invest in their employee’s skill development. I just don’t like hearing how some people complain that they’re being left behind because their boss wont do it for them.

]]> By: Randy https://wallylawless.com/its-not-your-employers-job-to-keep-you-at-the-top-of-your-game/comment-page-1/#comment-13730 Thu, 14 Nov 2013 22:27:11 +0000 http://wallylawless.com/?p=303#comment-13730 I definitely agree that developers need to take charge of their own professional development, but in a fast-changing field there should be some consideration given by employers to training and development. Maybe not flying devs out to events far afield, but allowing attendance for a day or two at a conference without cutting into vacation time would be a good start. Odds are the employer is going to benefit from developers experimenting and learning even if they don’t adopt those exact technologies.

I would also say that if an employer doesn’t care about or is getting in the way of professional development, it might be time to look at replacing the employer.

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