When doing a project, you can learn new things… or you can keep repeating your old mistakes.
As a programmer, I am always asked at job interviews how many years of practice do I have; preferably years spent using exactly the same system as the company does. Obviously, the idea is that more years = better. One year makes you not a noob, three years make you a senior developer, after five or seven years you are considered an expert, especially if you spent all those years using the very same systems as the company that is considering hiring you.
I also know a guy who spent more than 10 years as a database application developer, who has never heard about the concept of database normalization, does not understand why primary keys are supposed to be unique, never heard of refactoring, his code consists of thousand-lines long undocumented functions, and… okay, I stop here, because I could go on forever.
So, I guess it matters a lot how specifically you approach doing your projects.
When doing a project, you can learn new things… or you can keep repeating your old mistakes.
As a programmer, I am always asked at job interviews how many years of practice do I have; preferably years spent using exactly the same system as the company does. Obviously, the idea is that more years = better. One year makes you not a noob, three years make you a senior developer, after five or seven years you are considered an expert, especially if you spent all those years using the very same systems as the company that is considering hiring you.
I also know a guy who spent more than 10 years as a database application developer, who has never heard about the concept of database normalization, does not understand why primary keys are supposed to be unique, never heard of refactoring, his code consists of thousand-lines long undocumented functions, and… okay, I stop here, because I could go on forever.
So, I guess it matters a lot how specifically you approach doing your projects.
And whether your coworkers let you get away with thousand-lines long undocumented functions.