The first step is to wad up your self-doubt and chunk it in the nearest incinerator. If you've been tinkering with code for eight years and have won competition

The first step is to wad up your self-doubt and chunk it in the nearest incinerator. If you've been tinkering with code for eight years and have won competitions, odds are pretty certain you can do good enough work to justify a junior dev's salary. Anyway, the topic of actually finding work is broad, but this might help you get in the right direction; pick some things you'd like to work with, and look for specific job boards for them. For example, I'm pretty proficient with the Drupal framework/CMS, so I'll usually watch the official Drupal jobs board when I'm on the lookout for a new gig. There's also LinkedIn; you should at the least have a profile there, even if you aren't actively searching for jobs there. It also helps to have a personal site and do a little SEO on it so that it comes up if someone searches for "Lua developers in [your city]." That's a basic answer, but it might be enough to get your foot in the door at a few places.