I went from having very little development knowledge and a strong proclivity for computers, to getting a junior dev job at a fairly prominent agency in our area

I went from having very little development knowledge and a strong proclivity for computers, to getting a junior dev job at a fairly prominent agency in our area, in about 6 months. Now (a year later) I'm leading my first project and am an office authority on front-end dev and design (and fairly competent with Node.js, still not on a senior level within our company but getting there). I've had the benefit of learning under and alongside some amazing developers over the past year, and to be honest they took a pretty big chance on me with the hire. I just want to put out there that it IS possible to become not only employable, but legitimately valuable, in under a year. You just have to be willing to put in the effort. In the beginning, I was teaching myself to design and code for about 6 hours a day. My fiancé was supporting me during this time, and I'm incredibly grateful to her for that; if I only had 2-4 hours a day to learn, I doubt I would have made the progress I did during that time, and it wouldn't be the provider I now am for her and my 1-year-old son.