I'm old, so I've had a lot more than 6 years. When I got my first job at a small unknown software company, I'd been programming in my spare time for 9 years alr

I'm old, so I've had a lot more than 6 years. When I got my first job at a small unknown software company, I'd been programming in my spare time for 9 years already, and I estimate I had put in the proverbial 10,000 hours. I wasn't very good at that time, just good enough to get hired.