I think one of the things that really enabled me to grow as a developer and as a person was to accept my limitations and still be able to call myself such thing

I think one of the things that really enabled me to grow as a developer and as a person was to accept my limitations and still be able to call myself such things as "engineer" (the role I currently perform in at work) and "mathematician" (what my degree is in, and what I heart to continue learning) I think these arbitrary and frankly elitist constraints on what it means to be something like an engineer is often time more bullshit than not. You _are_ a developer. And you might even be better than you think you are given you've had to work with a very difficult language with extremely difficult constraints. Personally, I have no idea how I'd work in C if I didn't have access to malloc, free, or a lot of the components of the STL. The fact you're still looking to grow and expand experience rather than settle into dogma and specialization shows a lot of maturity. If you needed an official welcome: Welcome to the club. We're all different here.