Just the first hurdle though. It took me a year of serious effort to land my first dev job. The second one came to me: I was contacted by a recruiter and asked

Just the first hurdle though. It took me a year of serious effort to land my first dev job. The second one came to me: I was contacted by a recruiter and asked to interview and ended up accepting that offer about a year after starting in my first position. I dropped out of high school ten years ago and did nothing of note between then and teaching myself to code. Just stick with it until you land the first one and you'll be fine.