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This is actually spot on. I've known programming languages for over 25 years. I always wanted to be a software developer. I ended up being a network engineer (and pretty darn good at it too).

About three years ago, I switched to a developer role at my work, and then a lead developer not too long after that. I didn't land my dream job because my coding was so good. It was because of my underlying understanding of what we actually do and how the network stuff actually works, coupled with the minimal fact that I also know how to code that was ultimately responsible.