Will i get a job?

Hi Matt,

Indeed you can, I started out in a similar way as you, I had no prior experience, unlike you I had no IT credentials to show I'd completed a course/diploma however I managed to get myself a 2 week trial at a fairly new company just to see how I fit in and what they thought of me as I didn't have any experience working in a digital environment and the lack of credentials didn't help.

To put a long story short I ended up staying there for 10 months as a contractor earning more money than I knew what to do with as an 18 year old but sadly they lost their biggest client so I had to move on, luckily I was able to continue freelancing for the sister company in another state but of course that only lasts as long as you have work so I began to start searching and got into contact with a producer from my first company and I got lucky again and began freelancing for one of Australia's most well know companies; George Patterson Y&R.

Cutting another long story short I was offered a full time position 5 months later which allowed me to continued working on their larger clients for a good 3 years, however that came to an end as well not because of any particular reason but because I was looking for something new again.

I now work for Authentic Entertainment and have for 2 months and am absolutely loving it, been able to work on new clients is always great as you get to learn and understand something all over again and getting used to a new work environment always puts you in that mindset of when you first started.

What am I trying to say?

Don't give up or let others tell you can't achieve something, I pushed hard through the wall and it's landed me in a position where I went from a junior to a mid level developer and on my way to a senior developer very quickly.

My story is similar to Chris's, except I started at 27 after 9 years in the US Army. My high school had a tech. center where I took classes in C, PHP, HTML, CSS, and JS. After not having used them any of the skills I learned in high while in the Army I still managed to land a job. Not a great job, but it paid the bill. I started taking classes here and other places online and 2 year later have a great job. I have found during my time in the industry that there are a lot more jobs than there are people to fill the positions ( at least in the US). I read an article this year, around the time colleges had graduation, that said something along the line of "For every 1 computer science graduate there 4 available jobs". That means a lot of employers are willing to take a risk on someone with no formal education simply because they need skilled works, doesn't matter if those skill were self taught or not.