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if you enjoy what you can do, only then you can master it. that would of been much simpler explenation ;D.... goes for all things too! And to be honest, 9 to 5 would make you a nice engineer. a lot of people like code, all day and night, but really, 8 hours of productive learning and coding each day is plenty to become very good at it...

I always reccomend anyone to learn whatever is below their current interest in the 'stack'. for example if you like to learn java code, learn what assembly code and perhaps even C code is, learn to implement oop systems in C or assembly and you will have a much finer understanding of why certain decisions are made in your platform, and what motivates these decisions oposed to others. for a web developer, learning what your browser is doing is very important, and to understand why certain things work that way in the end, you might want to learn about cpus, network hardware, assembly code and all that jazz. dig deeper and deeper for greater understanding. it might seem like a lot of work, but if you enjoy what you do, it's never to much and never to deep ;D