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When did you realize it and what made you realize it? I'm a mid level engineer at a medium sized firm and feel like I only have only a few more years before I h

• the_only_law 6y ago
  > When did you realize it Recently, really over the past couple years. > what made you realize it Hmm, I suppose a number of things. For one, I spent a lot more time interacting with people who were actually good at it. And by this I don’t just mean people with many years of experience. Often they were people with little to no real experience who are generally good programmers working on interesting projects and showed extreme aptitude. I’ve also noticed a sort of limit at my learning as I’m having more and more issues grasping what should be simple concepts and find myself unable to really learn the things that interest. When I look at the number of years I’ve been doing this (both as a hobby and professionally) my actual ability is rather embarrassing. I’ll probably keep with it though, I’m too invested at this point to try much else. Most of the realistic alternatives sound even more dreadful and/or require a significant drop in pay/potential pay.