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Anyone who is familiar with getting into programming/coding field, especially without prior paid work experience in it? I’m US-based. Have some self taught experience, I would say I’m beyond novice albeit rusty, but proving that on a resume is another thing and I might be a better fit for entry level for that reason. Part of the problem is, a lot in my area last I looked tends to be military contractor stuff and I do not want to go work on weapons tech or whatever. I guess I could look for remote stuff?
Does anyone know of specific opportunities? (Not asking people to google search for me, just wondering on that level if anyone already knows of something.)
There is the Ren’py programming language to make visual novels that I am now learning.
Anecdotal experience but a friend of mine, who was objectively bad at coding but good communication skills, got a “requires Y years of experience in X language.” job after doing a 2 week bootcamp in X language by lying on the resume/interview. So unless you are looking for a job at the FAANG companies, which ive heard do a lot of vetting, fake it till you make it really can work.
Interesting, will keep that in mind. I do tend to be overly conscientious about that kind of thing to my detriment sometimes. 😅