@morbiuswilters said:
@Chame1eon said:
How did you manage to get paid to learn?
You must be new here. This site is dedicated to the amazing acts of stupidity perpetrated by individuals who got hired without the proper experience and "learned on the job". I'm not saying this is the case for this guy, but it's not impossible. Also note that good programmers are always learning on the job, but if you first learn development on the job there's a good chance you were hired without necessary experience.
I had the good fortune to work with an employer that wanted me to grow out of a limited tech support/management role and I wanted to do the same. I already knew quite a bit and was working on my own to expand my knowledge and he'd give me little code assignments to complete (pieces of a project he was working on) that started getting bigger and bigger and within 2 years I was the company's senior developer. It was one of the benefits of working at was was then a very small company.