I have extremely strong practical coding skills, but I don't spend much time solving "computer science heavy" type problems. Solving problems like that in my day-to-day work has been extremely rare. In my 15 years of programming I've spent 1,000+ hours studying really complex CS topics (Graph Theory, Dynamic Programming, Merge Sort Recursion, etc.), but I never need it.

• In 2007, I was an 18-year-old college freshman. I had never heard of "computer programming". By the time I was 20 I learned Visual Basic, C, Java, C++, and Python.
• In 2012 I discovered the Unity Game Engine which used C# as the scripting language. I became a diehard C# programmer and began to hate using C++ & Java (which were the languages my colleges used)
• In 2015 I became a web developer and started to only use JavaScript & Node.js. I also tried out ASP.NET/C#
• I got my 1st full-time web dev job in 2016. They had TONS of software written in PHP. From that point onward I became a PHP evangelist.
• In June 2020 I got laid off due to the Coronavirus decreasing sales at the company I was working at. While unemployed, I discovered there were 100x more Python jobs than PHP jobs in my area. So I switched to Python.