[wongwf82]

I think it is possible if you don't do it by yourself at home. For example, I'm joining Ruby on Rails hacknights and the community welcomes you to come up with something you want to build or built in another language and spend the night building it with the team. My guess if after doing it for 1 year plus you will have a network of friends (some who will offer you the job since they know what you built in that year).

You can be quite advanced in that particular skill if you practice enough for a long time. I picked up guitar when I was 27 when I started taking classes. Then it is up to your level of interest and commitment to reach a certain level.

'Expert' is up to interpretation. I'm only as expert as the other person who know and have practised less. When you think you've arrived at Expert level, you will stop advancing as much.

[celljunk-e]

How are you at guitar?

[wongwf82]

I discovered I could be really good at it, whereas I previously thought I was too old to learn musical instrument. Just have to find the correct way to learn that suits me. But time is so expensive that I'd rather spend my time on my biggest passion which is programming.