Future Employment prospects

pandey — Wed, 28 Apr 2021 15:50:08 +0000

Hello all,

TL;DR.
How easy / difficult it is for a self-taught web developer from third world developing countries to get a job in developed world?

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I have recently started to learn web development.
A little background here:
I have lived in the "tutorial-hell" for quite a while. I am currently working in healthcare industry but have had an interest in computers for quite a while. I have been distro-hopping since 2004-2005, now on fedora, (I have used arch, btw, ;p). I tried learning python2 but then they said python3 is coming. Then I started python3 and then came across a post by the guy who wrote "learn python the hard way" who practically discouraged learners
from python 3. then I tried java, and left it.

Since I have a little bit of statistics background too, I thought python would be a preferred choice to learn. However, all my efforts aborted basically because of my laziness, and because there was no one around to guide me. Anyhow, I am not complaining.

I have used sololearn (html, css, a little bit of javascript) and codegym (for java) in the past in addition to whatever source came my way. I have kept a self-hosted wordpress blog since 2009 and am pretty much familiar with this stuff.

I recently started web development mostly free resources such as freecodecamp.org, and other resources such as MDN etc, this time committed to completing the task. but for a self-learner this can be a hard task.

okay, enough for the pre-amble. coming to the point now, my question is how easy it is to get a job (remote or otherwise, which may required relocation) after completing the learning (including those projects that everyone advises beginners to have on github etc) for a person from a third world country, considering that the web development industry is not much highly paid.

Thanks in advance.

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Future Employment prospects