I completely relate to where you are coming from right now. It can be very difficult to break into this industry, especially if you come with work and life experience in another profession.
You are seasoned enough as a professional to make hiring managers nervous about you as an "entry level" or "junior" developer, yet you are lacking the real production experience in development to make an easy case to hire you for anything more senior. If you are not a 21 year old CS graduate, your resume for an entry level role can just confound an already overwhelmed hiring team.
Yet, having said that, don't despair! Genuinely don't despair. There is real hope. I, along with countless others, graduated from a coding bootcamp and managed to get ourselves in the door. It takes a combination of perseverance, patience, diligence and self-care to make it through.
One idea that was important for me in the process, and that I needed to reinforce regularly, was that each company is its own possibility. Each interview experience is only connected to what came before it inasmuch as we paint that connection in our own minds. It's really easy to construct a narrative in our own heads of interview failure followed by interview failure, but in reality, each new job opportunity is it's own thing. If you can successfully "checkout a branch" for each new interview and see it on its own without painting a picture of a chain of bad experiences, you might have a better chance of approaching it with positivity and good energy, which will be felt by the interviewers.
This, in my experience, takes a lot of self-care. It's okay to step back from the interview process for a day or two, or as much time as you need. Interviewing is a full time job, so just like in any job, you have a weekend, give yourself a weekend here as well. Go see a movie. Talk a nice walk. Do something that relaxes you and rejuvenates you. You will be a better candidate for it.
Best of luck! It feels like a low point right now, but the industry needs you, and a place will surface that will recognize your unique talents and contributions.
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I completely relate to where you are coming from right now. It can be very difficult to break into this industry, especially if you come with work and life experience in another profession.
You are seasoned enough as a professional to make hiring managers nervous about you as an "entry level" or "junior" developer, yet you are lacking the real production experience in development to make an easy case to hire you for anything more senior. If you are not a 21 year old CS graduate, your resume for an entry level role can just confound an already overwhelmed hiring team.
Yet, having said that, don't despair! Genuinely don't despair. There is real hope. I, along with countless others, graduated from a coding bootcamp and managed to get ourselves in the door. It takes a combination of perseverance, patience, diligence and self-care to make it through.
One idea that was important for me in the process, and that I needed to reinforce regularly, was that each company is its own possibility. Each interview experience is only connected to what came before it inasmuch as we paint that connection in our own minds. It's really easy to construct a narrative in our own heads of interview failure followed by interview failure, but in reality, each new job opportunity is it's own thing. If you can successfully "checkout a branch" for each new interview and see it on its own without painting a picture of a chain of bad experiences, you might have a better chance of approaching it with positivity and good energy, which will be felt by the interviewers.
This, in my experience, takes a lot of self-care. It's okay to step back from the interview process for a day or two, or as much time as you need. Interviewing is a full time job, so just like in any job, you have a weekend, give yourself a weekend here as well. Go see a movie. Talk a nice walk. Do something that relaxes you and rejuvenates you. You will be a better candidate for it.
Best of luck! It feels like a low point right now, but the industry needs you, and a place will surface that will recognize your unique talents and contributions.