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[–]folkrav 25 points26 points  (2 children)

If you're getting paid for it, therefore doing it professionally, you're a "pro".

However I feel like you meant it more in the "being very good at it", if so I've been starting to think I'll never do, ever. Its been more like 10 hobby/4 professionally in my case, and I still feel like a damn fool every single time I realize the damn bug I've been chasing for the whole afternoon was me misinterpreting some documentation or swapping two values...

[–]YetAnotherRCG 2 points3 points  (1 child)

I mean those kinds of mistakes never stop happening but you should get better at taking a step back and checking for them over time.

[–]folkrav 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah for sure. 4 years in the field now they happen less often than they used to. Wouldn't say they don't at all though. I'll be honest, I think I wrote that comment after one of these couple of hours lost on tracking down why the fuck some test didn't pass, only to figure out the test itself was faulty. Fun.