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Discussion on: Is it possible to get a web development job if I have a 6 year gap?

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Ben Halpern
  • I had a break of several years from coding before getting back into it. Your portfolio doesn't need to be more than one good project that you're proud of.
  • My brother got into coding at age 40 for the first time, with my encouragement, and he's now working as a developer.
  • You should start working on random projects regardless of how they fit your portfolio, more for learning.
  • If you need ideas for projects, let me know, or start another thread on that subject.
  • dev.to is a great place to get your writing and name out there. I'd suggest filling out your profile.
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Ermal Shuli • Edited

@ben does your brother and people like your brother have transferable skills from their other career? I do not have any of that, does that matter. I read a lot how dev jobs aren't just about just writing code

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Ermal Shuli

This is very encouraging.

Does it matter that I have no other work experience. Your brother would have had plenty transferable skills. Or is it really all about one's coding ability and the other stuff are just must haves?

Yes I am in need of project ideas, would love to hear your suggestions.

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Bob van Hoove

It's hard to suggest something since I don't know what you're interested in.

One way to get started is to contribute to an existing project that you like. I just read this article which prompted me to post it here:

Unconventional way of learning a new programming language

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Alin Pisica

If I'm not too curious, I would like to get some projects. I've starting programming alone 4 years ago, just from the internet, managed to win some national and regional competitive programming contests, and gathered few money from simple websites and apps(not more than 100$ overall). I feel like I'm stuck now. I don't know where to go ahead, what to do more, but when I try to get on websites like Freelancer or Upwork, everything seems too hard for me. What should I do? I got not portfolio, by the way...