- To be good at your job and do well. Especially in tech where things can evolve quickly. Or just learn your job once and get left behind.
- I like growing my skill because I like that I do and being better at it I can demand more money. I do this outside of my employer because I want to grow.
- To be better at what you do, learn ways to avoid struggles you run into to make your life easier, explore tools that reduce mundane tasks to improve your quality of life, be able to demand more money by knowing skills or tools others don't. I mean a ton of reasons.
My picking .world is not a meaningful choice in my life, I put at much time into thinking about it as it deserved. My commenting and posting workflow aren't things that I need to get by, that can help me buy a house or food. Knowing emerging technologies that command a higher salary can. I literally learned the skills of my career on my own, online. I read books, I learned how to use tools, I grew. Now I make more money because of that. I wasn't sitting around waiting for for employer to pay for and make me get better at something. I don't get how this is such a hard thing to comprehend.
You think a guy who learned to be an electrician in the 90s and never leaned new tools of the trade is going to compete with someone who has? I mean maybe these whole power tools thing are a fad. Now take that to tech where things in the web and design space can move rapidly and you get left behind way faster, all because someone didn't make you get better? That's a wild take on life to me. I want to be good at what I do so I can demand a high salary and live a comfortable life. That's the end goal, having a comfortable life with a job that's as easy as you can get while feeling good about it and pays well. Learning and leveraging that knowledge is the way to get there.