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In college days ... Amarnath S10-Feb-20 2:04 Amarnath S 10-Feb-20 2:04  Some of us used to play computer games (on the 286 machines), while our programs ran on the mainframe. Once the mainframe program completed running, in about 20 minutes, used to go and see the results, and debug. After joining office, all that fun was gone. No, and most likely not a good idea Slacker00710-Feb-20 1:59 Slacker007 10-Feb-20 1:59  I can't possibly see how that improves your productivity and throughput. It's much easier to enjoy the favor of both friend and foe, and not give a damn who's who. -- Lon Milo DuQuette Re: No, and most likely not a good idea Leo5610-Feb-20 21:34 Leo56 10-Feb-20 21:34  Depends on how 'far-sighted' your employer is - there's been several occasions where knowledge I've gained from (strictly speaking, 'private' study) have saved the bacon at work. Try telling my boss, and I'd probably be censured for 'wasting' work time... Re: No, and most likely not a good idea W∴ Balboos, GHB11-Feb-20 7:04 W∴ Balboos, GHB 11-Feb-20 7:04  It depends a lot upon what you do as "your own projects". In my chemist days it was the same. I heard about predator/pray simulations and happened to have read a paper about ligand substitution on Molybdenum Hexacarobnyl. So I went and amused myself with my first Monte-Carlo model. My employer has the patent that resulted from it (and eventual experimental proof) "Induced Surface Ensembles on Transition Metal Surfaces". I guess it depend upon how one plays. On the other hand - it seems all the "clerks" (and above) have phone on there desk that, when not streaming videos is otherwise sucking up about half their time. In this case, it's not even productive for some third party. That's a problem that's real and pressing. Ravings en masse^ "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 Re: No, and most likely not a good idea Slacker00712-Feb-20 7:21 Slacker007 12-Feb-20 7:21  if you are getting paid money to work on your private projects, and you don't have an agreement with your employer to do that, then that is wrong, and you could actually be committing a crime. I don't do that. ever. and it does not depend on anything. It's much easier to enjoy the favor of both friend and foe, and not give a damn who's who. -- Lon Milo DuQuette Re: No, and most likely not a good idea W∴ Balboos, GHB13-Feb-20 2:48 W∴ Balboos, GHB 13-Feb-20 2:48  Slacker007 wrote: if you are getting paid money to work on your private projects, That I was not doing. Building a website for a (really) non-profit and maintaining it, for example. Others are just plain raw curiosity - like ODBC on Excel and Text files. Sure enough (actually, amazingly) the need to extract and manipulate Excel on its way to SQL occurred in less than two week. An import just didn't work for it. I do agree that "freelancing" on company time, or billing A whilst working on B's project are unethical practices.   Stealing is an appropriate description. Ravings en masse^ "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 Nope Nemanja Trifunovic10-Feb-20 1:55 Nemanja Trifunovic 10-Feb-20 1:55  Strictly speaking there is no such thing as "office hours" as I am not paid hourly, but the rule is: I work on my personal project only: - On my on personal computer && - Outside of the office (mostly at home) && - When not connected to my employer's network Mixing work and personal projects is asking for trouble, IMHO. utf8-cpp Yes - But It's Not That Simple W∴ Balboos, GHB10-Feb-20 1:25 W∴ Balboos, GHB 10-Feb-20 1:25  I work on "external" projects - (volunteer work/coding, actually) during slow periods in working hours. It is there, however, that I picked up several languages which the company not long after needed "big time" as I became the lone web-developer for an .exe based company going to web-applications. Not the first time that my entertainment ended up being their necessity rather soon after - and, if you were so thinking - not at my behest or other influence. It just works out that way. If one likes to throw trite comments: "win-win". Ravings en masse^ "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010

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