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Discussion on: Becoming a full stack developer - Part 0: Decision, plan, routines

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Jakob Attkinson

Are you currently employed? How much time do you think you can dedicate to this "project" (please allow me to name it like this)? Between a job, family and other life obligations 6 months might be just a couple hundred hours in total

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Arne

If you are referring to the 10,000 hour rule, don’t let that distract you from committing to program 1.5-2.0 hours each day and — more importantly maybe — get right back on track when you got distracted. I will be far from mastery by the end of 6 months but that’s not the point. For me, I was able to reduce my hours and still get by financially. That’s a luxury but it didn’t come without any cost either. Question some fundamental assumptions, it’s your life after all!