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1) I'm stuck. Can't make it at a programming job since my major was not CS.

2) Freelance doesn't really work without a portfolio to gain traction

Horrible situation because money was never an issue to me. I just wanted to pursue my passion. If I was able to remotely work for $20/hr. I would gladly move to a low cost of living country.

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Are you in the US? If so, not having a CS major shouldn't hold you back too much.

My major was not CS and I am working for a well-known technology company as a software engineer. Feel free to reach out to me privately (email in profile).

I have a finance degree and am in the US. I've been self taught for the past few years. I know the basics of programming and its easy for me to learn a new language but proving to tech firms here has proved difficult except for small short term gigs ironing out wordpress issues and writing data mining scripts. Any advice how to break out into the industry would be greatly appreciated.

Interviewers normally care about education when they've not got much else to go on. Build something impressive to show them, your proving what your actually capable of, so they don't have to guess capabilities based on your education.

As a former teacher with no CS degree and now on my 3rd developer job that I really enjoy I +1 this sentiment. I have some other tips if you need some, e-mail me I'd be happy to help. david at moja dot io

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