Having a profession is something, becoming a professional is another. The mental distance between those two is similar to the distance between Irbid and Manhattan.
When building up your profession, there are two parallel lines that you need to maintain and balance:
Step #1: Practice it yourself.
Keep practicing your profession the right way, work smart, enhance your techniques every work cycle.
Step #2: Observe other professional work.
Look at what other good people have done. Understand different methodologies, patterns, techniques and practices. Read, research, find better ways to do the same work.
This bicyclic process is necessary to grow you fast enough.
Dropping line #2 will get you a bit lost and isolated, often resulting in slow progress in your career. Dropping line #1 will simply make you loose your craft.
The most useful tasks I ever got while working in the software industry were debugging, fixing and enhancing existing codebases.
Simply because, I get the opportunity to write code, and to understand how other code works.
Finally, I'd like to end this post with a valuable wisdom:
"Its not what you know, its how good you know it."
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