I second this thought! What a great feeling it is, too, when someone comes to you with questions and advice. I especially love the 'aha-moments' when I can fully explain something, front to back, without hesitation. It also makes me realize that when I use to ask people questions, I wasn't wasting people's time like I had always been afraid of. It's really empowering to be looked up to or seen as a teammate with valuable knowledge. Impostor syndrome is too easy to fall into.
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When I can work out how to exit Vim.
I actually always feel like a newbie, well at least a couple of times per week and every few years.
Switching always introduces a year of newbie-ness.
Same goes for languages(php, elixir, c#, java etc), new databases(redis, graphql, postgres, etc), sytems(OSX, Linux, RTEMS, etc), buildtooling(grunt, brunch, gulp, webpack etc,) platforms(raspberry pi, beagleboard, pc, etc), paradigms(DDD, BDD, Scrum, etc), external api's(logstash, mailchimp, etc), frameworks(laravel, symfony, angular1-6, vuejs, etc), CMS'ses(wordpress, joomla, modx, expression engine, craftcms, etc) etc, etc.
New projects always introduce different needs.
A new thing right not is that I just picked up Erlang and embedded programming, which are totally new to me.
Propably never. There's still tooooo much to learn, so I'll consider myself as junior probably till the end of my dev career :)
Never :D.
When I started out, I knew everything.
The longer I'm in the game, the more there is to learn.
The ultimate trick is to keep thinking that you're a newbie, that way you keep learning.
I second this thought! What a great feeling it is, too, when someone comes to you with questions and advice. I especially love the 'aha-moments' when I can fully explain something, front to back, without hesitation. It also makes me realize that when I use to ask people questions, I wasn't wasting people's time like I had always been afraid of. It's really empowering to be looked up to or seen as a teammate with valuable knowledge. Impostor syndrome is too easy to fall into.
I can always find new areas where I am a newbie, I do think I will always be a newbie.
I think it's more important to have some self-knowledge about:
A. what those areas are and...
B. If you really need to do something about it.
Being a pessimist here, I underestimate myself in tech space and try to be a "newbie" to become a continuous learner
I think myself as a newbie/junior forever because I do not want to get old.
Never, I’m junior forever! There’s always something to learn, I’ll be a senior when they put me in a retirement home!