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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!
Coding is like karate...Someone always knows more. One thing I have really tried to be is humble throughout my career. All of us at one point didn't "Get" when to use for, for each or while loops. I always try to help other devs get better. Always try to get better, and learn more.
Well actually I'm a junior/newbie. I'm coding just for a few years. But I hope I will see myself as a junior for the future too. With this way I can be eager to learn all the time.
Somewhere around my 10th year after being a developer (and getting a monthly paycheck for that - school and university don't really count)
That.. and not being able to find any answers on the newsgroups, search engines etc. ... at that time there was no stackoverflow yet. And while searching instead of finding what I was looking I got distracted and I started providing answers to other people's questions.
"You will be a senior when you can teach and guide other programmers."
This is what my previous boss told me before he agreed to change my title and increase my salary.
I take the position that I will always be a junior/newbie, in general...what, with a new JS "framework" being birthed every other day and the rolling thunder from the rapid expansion of cloud services (see what I did there?). And I am OK with that. In terns of specific technologies, now this is where my ego tends to speak up a bit.