For me the answer is simple: the moment I became a Freelance and I successfully earn money with my own code.
To explain more: working as a employee in different companies for 10 years gave me a lot of experience in coding, but I was always feeling like a newbie for various reasons. The first one is hierarchy. For lot of people hierarchy is OK and even feel safe, you're not responsible for everything you're doing, your boss is. You go to work at 9am, leave at 6pm, you got your money and your life going. Well I never been happy in this life, it was feeling too much like school, and at the end I was always developing idea of others, with their methods learning new stuff, but never getting this confidence to actually developing with my vision, my ideas. And I knew I was perfectly capable of doing that, I have a background in Math and Physics, complex stuff don't scare me.
The moment I changed my career becoming a freelance, answering needs from clients (from simple sprints to developing full applications) with my "own" organization of doing stuff and see that clients were happy and money was landing on my account, I knew I was not a newbie anymore. Steal constantly learning of course, this is where the fun is in development, but not considering myself as a newbie. And it feels good!
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For me the answer is simple: the moment I became a Freelance and I successfully earn money with my own code.
To explain more: working as a employee in different companies for 10 years gave me a lot of experience in coding, but I was always feeling like a newbie for various reasons. The first one is hierarchy. For lot of people hierarchy is OK and even feel safe, you're not responsible for everything you're doing, your boss is. You go to work at 9am, leave at 6pm, you got your money and your life going. Well I never been happy in this life, it was feeling too much like school, and at the end I was always developing idea of others, with their methods learning new stuff, but never getting this confidence to actually developing with my vision, my ideas. And I knew I was perfectly capable of doing that, I have a background in Math and Physics, complex stuff don't scare me.
The moment I changed my career becoming a freelance, answering needs from clients (from simple sprints to developing full applications) with my "own" organization of doing stuff and see that clients were happy and money was landing on my account, I knew I was not a newbie anymore. Steal constantly learning of course, this is where the fun is in development, but not considering myself as a newbie. And it feels good!