My personal opinion as a 20 year old who dropped out... Lie through your teeth. That job that requires Magento/Wordpress/NodeJS? As far as anyone's concerned,

My personal opinion as a 20 year old who dropped out... Lie through your teeth. That job that requires Magento/Wordpress/NodeJS? As far as anyone's concerned, you've been playing with that toolset for the past year or so. They want to see samples? Sure thing. Whip something up by the next day and show it off as if you've always had it done. I've gone from working for $2 an hour to making $40 per hour, and that number's going to just keep going up but I would be a lot farther behind now if I hadn't pretty much lied about everything. I wouldn't have gotten the first few clients or businesses to hire me if they really knew that I was just a high school graduate with about 6 months of coding experience. If they'd known I don't actually know CakePHP / Wordpress / Ruby on Rails / Django, they would've never hired me. Instead I lied, instilled confidence, learned it overnight, and basically got paid to learn. Note this only works if you have the technical ability to learn things quickly overnight.