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Try recruitment tests like this one https://triplebyte.com/ https://triplebyte.com/ (read faq: https://triplebyte.com/candidate_faq https://triplebyte.com/candidate_faq) or even some remote dev factory type stuff like TopTal to start out otherwise you get that HR phone screen demanding your X years of experience with X stack. Another method is find a company you want to work for, find where they keep open source projects, and work on them. When they have a job opening you'll be the one they contact usually. Databases, frameworks, Docker, ect are all good for this. Mailing lists and open source projects is how I usually get work and avoid the phone screen demanding X years of exp.