Get a contract gig job doing something small that you can deliver quality work on. I started in 2001 with a 15/hr job making a static website for a college prof

Get a contract gig job doing something small that you can deliver quality work on. I started in 2001 with a 15/hr job making a static website for a college professor’s group ( had no connections just saw an online Craigslist ad and responded ). That job led to more static websites, which led to some database work, which led to a larger contract developing software to help manage a large event, which led to (many) more php/MySQL applications, which eventually led to interviewing and getting a full time job ( still there after almost two decades but different role ). Over the course of all this, interviewing for each next gig/job got progressively easier.