I talked to an intern trader who recently finished his gig. His mentor told him at the beginning of the summer, "When you finish, I'm going to ask you what makes someone a great trader."
At the end of the summer, the intern gave some generic answer about financial calculations.
The mentor said, "What makes someone a great trader is what he does when things are slow."
How true, and the same could be said for programmers.
For any job that requires creative, highly educated people to work toward high pressure, difficult to move deadlines, the long-term differentiating factor will be how the person invests in him/herself. And slow times provide the only opportunity for that, whether 5 minutes or 5 days long.
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