Yes. I believe the progress calculator (
http://esi.coolinc.info/progress.cgi) estimated that i'd reach level 100 in Sniper in about 10 years, and level 100 Ranged Laser (Dmg) in about 13 years. That's not including the effects of Commando and Kill Strike when i unlock them, so let's be optimistic and say 9 years and 12 years.
You are referring to the most recent skill nerf, as described here:
Challenge to the community: unfreeze the skill progression
What was changed is the nature of the skill level to skill volume function. Jdegre made this plot to show the nature of the change.
Basically, what used to get you to 10k in a skill (about 1250 PEDs volume) will now get you to about 8k, and 10k is that much effort again from 8k (2500 PEDs total volume).
At level 3.6k, you have 50 PEDs volume in that skill (
http://esi.coolinc.info/?level=3600), so when you've repeated the efforts it took to get there 50 times, you'll be at 10k in that skill (~2500 PEDs volume).