Did you manage to master the languages here at Treehouse. Can you describe: hours a day spent here, worker/non-worker...

Focus less on mastery and more on building stuff with what you know. Build something, anything, make it advanced enough to take more then a week and apply everything you know. Employers care a lot more about what you can build then how well you know the tools. AKA if you can build the house well I don't care if you know every little thing about the hammer you used.

Building stuff takes a long time if you know little and you hit a problem every time when you do so, the knowledge or experience!

I am more of like practice makes it perfect or faster :). So, start building on the current structure, copy maybe to practice and get along the way with new stuff! I know you need to know the big stuff they learn you here but I am more oriented on to do it correct and fast. I don't intend to work for a company in the near future, only as a freelancer and time/quality makes the difference here so you need to know how to use your tools for a good feedback!

I am not doing this to build a blog, a website with photos or for personal use, I intend to use it for shopping websites/platforms, wordpress, things that brings flow and value for start.

I'm thinking for the future and not building but maintaining/developing(not sure the term), sorry. Anyway, it will be something related to HTML, CSS, SQL for the start and probably PHP.

I am freelancer for a few years already but in sales/tech/customer support. Believe me, if you have more skills you get contracts and develop connections in other areas too!

For ex. I want to control HTML, CSS and SQL for the start and master PHP at a later date. Other skills include Photoshop, Premiere Pro basic for now, maybe other programs from Adobe suite, support, etc. I have to learn a bit and pay the exam fee to take a COMPTIA A+ certification, pay a course or two to get back with other foreign languages learned in the past, etc. I have a problem only with finding jobs to work for a company here with these skills which pay good money(hard to find here with two unfinished universities and lack of employment for past years)....for so much time spent on developing experience with these. To make an idea I make as a freelancer two or three times more then I would usually do for a company which can control me during working hours! As a freelancer I can take multiple contracts, develop skills, earning weekly, etc.

So, I'm mainly interested to not build a thing from scratch but work for someone maybe unpaid till I understand how to align text, control the files, debug, etc. I know that this is what programmers do, create things from scratch but I am not interested in this for start.

And the biggest enemy is time :) I see your point but in my area people help you if you do your job well and accommodate hours of learning.

Maybe someone else can share their experience also?

I see you have invested a lot of time here @Ricky Catron, how much time did you need to learn html, css and php? Is it hard to start with a new language like Python?

Did you get employed, how are your earnings? And the main questions what are you still doing on Treehouse after three years?

I'm asking because I live alone and I can't afford to remain without a monthly basis.

Thank man, gives me a boost to get back to learning seeing someone takes time to actually respond to your questions :)

It will be difficult but what the heck, I'll give it a try for one year and see how it goes, I can only accumulate information...