Being an extremely effective professional programmer (as opposed to a competent one) requires you to learn and do some things that you won't learn in school, and also that no sensible person would pay you for. This is just fact and people who don't like it either may accept being just competent or are in the wrong career.
What does that have to do with regularly burning the midnight oil for no tangible reason? I study computer science and new technologies when off the job, but you won't catch me dead working on company code after hours.
