I think the advice in another thread here may be valuable to you: Ask HN: Becoming a Freelancer in 6 months? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5945865 https:

I think the advice in another thread here may be valuable to you: Ask HN: Becoming a Freelancer in 6 months? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5945865 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5945865 Particularly the Wordpress advice. Wordpress is a good example of something where someone with no programming ability at all, but an interest in technical work, can gain some (marketable!) skills, and then segway into actual coding experience (PHP in this case). But the short answer is, there has never been a better time when software development was more accessible to learn, or more useful and marketable, and both of those needles are moving in directions favorable to your interests!