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After my first internship as an AngularJS developer, I joined a small team that built some pretty cool stuff. Very interesting stack, lots of programming languages, different databases, queues, etc.

I joined as the "person who will teach them how to use AngularJS and rewrite the Ember app with it". This went pretty well as we (mainly myself) rewrote the app pretty quickly after months of them struggling with Ember (I didn't use Ember, so I don't know if Ember was so confusing or they were just lazy to learn it will).

After that, I started looking into the backend and I was able to contribute to the company's success. When I had to use Cassandra, Kafka, Symfony, Ruby, Puppet, etc, I'd watch hours and hours of videos, read documentations until I knew it "well enough".

After some time, I noticed that quite often I knew the subject better than my colleagues and I could come up with solutions and implement then on my own.

This helped me realize that these technologies can be learned and it's only a matter of determination, dedication and patience.