As I've said many times before, one of the biggest reasons I took the job at Insurance.com was that I needed to be challenged and given the opportunity to learn. While I didn't get a lot of that at first, and there are lulls from time to time, I am aware that I am getting better at what I do. I give a lot of credit to the guy I work most with in that he gets me thinking the "right" way, and can explain things in a way I understand.
So last night I finally started to hit a coding stride. I got back to working on CoasterBuzz code for the first time in probably two or three months. I had a problem that was somewhat complex, and I realized a very elegant way to solve it. Most impressive to me was that I used delegates (something I've struggled to understand in C#) to handle an otherwise ugly and complex formatting situation. A week or two ago I broke out permission issues for the photo gallery app in an abstract way that makes it "pluggable" into various sites or applications.
The point is that I'm writing less code to do more, in a way that is very reusable. It has been a long road to get to this point, and you can only get there by learning. It's kind of a rush to get this far along and feel like you've entered another league.
Perhaps, at least for now, this really is what I was meant to do.