Well, that is pretty offensive. You're calling me incompetent, whereas I'm definitely a competent person. I did well in school (3.6 GPA in a good college), finished a master's degree, and have done well in an established, albeit dying, profession, including speaking at conferences and writing for trade publications (and even co-wrote an article for a peer-reviewed journal, which is unusual for my profession). If you're referring to my programming chops, well, I think it's pretty impressive that I taught myself to code in my 30s, and that I am now very comfortable in Python, JavaScript, and (to a lesser extent) C and Lua. I even play around with languages like Haskell and Ada for fun. I taught myself git, built several large web applications (which are part of my portfolio), and have almost finished a complex Android application (thus adding basic Java to my list of languages). I've unfortunately not yet had the opportunity to be mentored by someone more experienced than me, or participate in a large team-driven project, which I realize is now holding me back from the next level of programming expertise.

I could make similar presumptions about you based on your response, but since I don't know you at all, I'll refrain.