How to get a job as a beginner tester / programmer, living in a small town?

Question

Career in IT

Hello everyone
, I want to change my profession. The previous job was closed and now I am looking for myself in programming or testing. I learned the basics of programming and practiced writing scripts on Autoit. I looked at courses on css and html, but have not yet made up websites.
I know there will be a lot to learn.
But I have one question. How realistic is it to find a job and continue to grow professionally if you do not live in a millionaire? What are the prospects?
Thanks

ps
Sorry for the probably too general question..

Answer 1

Even taking into account the fact that the pandemic has made its own adjustments and companies more often choose remote work without experience, there is little chance. Highly. They are not zero, but a year and a half and a hundred interviews will not be enough.

Answer 2

In short, xs, because there are a lot of variables.
But if you touched a topic that is relevant to me, then here are my experiences and IMHO:
Experience.
He worked in woodworking, thought about how to live happily ever after. Having received a couple of times with a frying pan, I began to think more actively. For a couple of years, I studied html, css layout in fits and starts, looked at js out of the corner of my eye, somehow devoted my vacation to php. In snatches - this is after work, from time to time, sometimes for weeks I did not touch the code. I think this my two-year volume, if it’s normal (every day, from morning to evening) you can master it in 3 months. And of course it’s better not to stretch like me, because I constantly forgot what I had learned (for example, flex taught three times, and every time like the first).
Posted a resume, performed test tasks a couple of times, but failed miserably.
I realized that I myself will be teaching for so long, especially in such snatches. I decided to take some courses on website layout. Just in our city, at one web studio, these started and I got there. Passed courses (paid by itself) --- took on an internship --- now I work there. So far, only small tasks (layout a slider, add a captcha, place content) but I'm glad because now every day with benefit and development. Because I learn so many new things, my head is spinning.
IMHO.
Sphere change.
There are many ways to change the sphere. It’s great, of course, if you have acquaintances and they will arrange you, or a friend will teach you and tell you, but for example, at my work, people finally came to the web studio from scratch, said I want to work, they gave him a test task, he did it somehow (figured with morning until evening), they took him, but for a couple of months he worked for free. Now the norms frontender.
So anything is possible.
Salary and career.
We have a city of 300 thousand and neither one nor the other. At the sawmill, you can get more than sites to do in web studios, of course this is. But to start, of course, sometimes you have to.
Naturally, in plans to get a job remotely in a company, or to move, or freelancing in general, there is something to think about.
Well, to have the wildest sheet, here are the theses and thoughts:
- more practice (I sometimes sinned that I watched a video about js, but I didn’t write a single line myself)
- I outline what I learned, because a lot will be forgotten and it will be a shame that you stumble upon the same mistakes
- a mentor is cool, while I took courses I learned so much , and really from practical development. When you learn it yourself for a long time, sometimes you learn something wrong, not like that.
- learn from practical tasks. Those. you don't just remember what tags, properties, functions you have.. but you set a specific task, let's say, make up this page and complete it. It is advisable to save your work
- devote time to sports
- I'm tired of writing so in the end:
use sunscreen

Answer 3

depends on the city, open the job site and see if there is what you need,
if not, then just move