@Viss My rudest awakening as a professional was the number of other programmers I encountered who were uninterested in learning. I don't want to be one of those "you should spend all your time doing side projects and neglecting your kids" kinda people; work is work, have a separate life outside of it. But I experienced such intellectual laziness from people ostensibly employed to know the things they didn't know and didn't care to learn, and it was heartbreaking.