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There's a stupid questions thread.

The answer is yes you have to just as hard as you would on learning as you would at a university.

This could have been a Google search

>>1019784 (OP)

Employers will not look at portfolios. It's all smoke and mirrors. HR will fuck you over for lack of experience, being an autistic 8chan faggot and no degree. You need to get lucky and somehow be interviewed by a nerd or a HR faggot who needs to fill a post and is hungover.

Anyone who tells you otherwise got lucky or is LARPing as though they had any say in who gets hired.

>>1019790

I thought it was kind of meta for that.

If a mod thinks otherwise, they can delete this.

>This could have been a Google search

So can most questions on imageboards. I posted because I enjoy the element of discussion and new insight that you don't get from search engines.

Similar position as OP

I'm trying to start working remotely in English and graphic design, then move into Web design, then coding.

I'm just going to get a fake degree to get through first round recruitment screening

>>1019791

>Employers will not look at portfolios

Not true

>>1019784 (OP)

Freelancer shit would be the easiest way to get started, I figure.

>I went into college to study fine art

What's it like, OP? Genuinely curious.

i guess one way is to do some small time small team work on some really important programs and put it on like github, and then partake in some other open source developments,

if you do good work see if you get noticed, do some contract work for a long while and eventually find way into long term gigs

If you're starting you can always subcontract on freelancing sites to Indians.

I take jobs then put them straight on there and pocket 10$

>>1019790

> This could have been a Google search

Imageboards BTFO

Just start at an indie game dev studio. You will slave away, but in game dev, entry is usually pretty easy afaik. You can then take the game dev experience to go somewhere else.