Anyone here who escaped IT/security and got a dev job?
How did you do it?

Is it that bad?

@gitpush
Not at all, it's just not my thing. I don't like it. I have a huge passion for development, not for security.

@clovisIrex start with your own projects and when you are good enough for the market apply to Dev jobs. Use ur current job to cover your expenses

@clovisIrex I'm the total opposite, swap?

@gitpush
I've been doing just that for the past 5 months or so. Lots of self learning, online courses, helping freelance friends and some toy projects here and there.

I started to apply for some junior jobs I saw on Linkedin, get denied every time...

@daarkfall
Sure, I wish

@clovisIrex I think what you need is a small open source app with basic features that shows your coding style and skills.
This will give you an advantage.

For me it took me 6 months to land my first job even though I already had some projects I contributed to on github

Have you tried turning your career off and on again?