On a slight tangent, I've always found that hobbies - and treating programming as one of them - always helps me disassociate from thinking about my own achievements as only being work-related. I've tried so many things, just because they interested me, and got fairly good at some of them. Sometimes it might be a craft, another time it might be learning a new programming language, or a piece of software I don't know well enough.
The ones I don't enjoy so much fall by the wayside (life drawing, golang, philosophy, whittling, many more), but some chance subjects have directly led to better jobs (ruby, elixir), some have made me a better programmer, and anything else I can at least say has made me a more rounded and knowledgable person, and hopefully more employable because of it.