The hardest part, for me, is knowing how to 'get a job' as a web dev. It seems like thats something no one ever talks about, and rarely do I see any information

The hardest part, for me, is knowing how to 'get a job' as a web dev. It seems like thats something no one ever talks about, and rarely do I see any information for. The reality is that you need to have some worth to a company, and that is in your skills and ability to improve your skills. Thing is, how do you prove that? Just because you make some app in React doesn't mean you're now an experienced React developer that can solve complex problems with it. Just because you make some web apps doesn't mean that you know the proper technologies to work with in other projects. It takes a lot of time and effort to learn things, and there are plenty of companies that aren't there to pay you to learn a whole bunch of new things unless overall you have a lot of experience. I look at job postings all the time, and I don't feel I can honestly say: "Yeah, I can do that". I could learn to do what they need, or maybe the circumstances of the employment may cause me to be useless in its duration. There just doesn't seem to be a way to know what you're going to be working with until you just jump ship into it, and if you fail, well, nobody talks about that, and thats legitimately scary to me. Sometimes I feel its not real, like the people who get 'real' jobs with this stuff can either just fake it and get lucky, or are simply better. It sucks, because I know I've made some cool things and can make much better things. It sucks even more because there's a limit to how much time you can spend working towards a complex career goal like software development before you just end up working a retail job full time to survive. So, yeah, that parts difficult.