I am always feeling like a beginner all over again.  It should be a draw to the professional programmer, your going to learn new languages and frameworks.  I understand we must type cast ourselves for a particular job or position because few companies want to hire a generalist and the number of companies that want to pay while you learn is actually less.

I built several flash applications for my last employer, some ran on the internet, some did not.

They are still using the wordsmart challenge.  The stand alone version of the software is still their flagship product.  I did not use any third party products for data storage, but chose to use flash Shared Objects to store, manage, and, display data. All of this was done in AS 2.0. I am familiarizing myself with AS 3.0 and I am sure I could handle a project using 3.0.