Why? From his description it sounds like he enjoyed it and that's probably the best kind of work.
I've spent more time on tooling for myself than i got out of it in saved time and learned a ton without pay.
Alternatively i'd have been paying a match of a videogame that i'd have forgotten about by and probably regretted now.
These past days I spent a lot of time doing research into and designing an own keyboard at home. Something similar exists but is imo overpriced yet i'm not even saving money given all i've spent on a soldering iron, etc
But i'm enjoying myself just creating something that i've gotten invested in.
Meanwhile at work I feel like a damn clerk. Making minor changes, arguing, pushing little bits of overhead out of the way and working slowly on something i consider an inherently inefficient design bound to require a complete rewrite at some point for reasons out of our control.
I wish i could go back to those occasional few problems I cared about to work just that bit more to get it working.
In neither scenario I really cared about the overarching company but if there was never ever anything to catch my drive like that i'd have changed jobs by now.
I've spent more time on tooling for myself than i got out of it in saved time and learned a ton without pay. Alternatively i'd have been paying a match of a videogame that i'd have forgotten about by and probably regretted now.
These past days I spent a lot of time doing research into and designing an own keyboard at home. Something similar exists but is imo overpriced yet i'm not even saving money given all i've spent on a soldering iron, etc But i'm enjoying myself just creating something that i've gotten invested in.
Meanwhile at work I feel like a damn clerk. Making minor changes, arguing, pushing little bits of overhead out of the way and working slowly on something i consider an inherently inefficient design bound to require a complete rewrite at some point for reasons out of our control.
I wish i could go back to those occasional few problems I cared about to work just that bit more to get it working. In neither scenario I really cared about the overarching company but if there was never ever anything to catch my drive like that i'd have changed jobs by now.