Comment by lowercased
2 years ago
> making the investment is worthwhile and pays off in small and large ways
And... 'making the investment' takes time, and means that time is not able to be invested someplace else.
If the majority of your job is writing SQL or similar (data access, etc) then sure - yes, learn more of those tools. Some folks have a wider range of responsibilities that means you have to decide what to make more time investments in, and saying 'yes' to something is necessarily saying 'no' to other things.
Eh, sure. Some people are not developers or don't work with systems.
But 20 hours spent learning SQL pays off for a lifetime. Most people watch more hours of TV than that per week.
We all make our choices, but very very few people could not find 20 hours somewhere in their lives, with zero net loss.