Without experience and education in the front end?

Question

Career in IT

Good evening everyone.
Let me tell you about myself: I am new to IT. I know how to typeset, I know JS.
I took a couple of simple layout works in VK groups, did it clumsily, but I did it.
I want to move on, but I live in a city with a population of 15k people.
I have an acquaintance, he left this city for Yaroslavl, they developed together, only he started with a python, then he moved to the front. So, he was immediately hired as an intern in an incubator with a salary of 30 tr.
But he had experience as an engineer and have a higher education
He said that out of 10 trainees, only one of them has no education in his specialty)
So that's the question: do education and work experience greatly affect employment. I want to leave for the same Yaroslavl and work at least for food, for development in the field of programming, because I feel like I'm marking time.
PS MB expressed his thoughts crookedly, it always turned out badly)
By the way, the dream is 18, the friend is 27.

Answer 1

18 years old - first go to the army , they will set up
your sight there and you will not crookedly state

Answer 2

Yes, when applying for a job, no one needs your education, the main thing is knowledge, reviews and portfolio. All this is gained through hard work and self-study.
If you can move to a big city, move. Ask your friend to visit for a week and go for interviews.
You will need a tower as soon as you become valuable in the market and they start calling you a foreigner, well, or you yourself will strive there. For a work visa in 99% you need a / about. In all other cases now, this is just an indicator that you know how to communicate with people and make at least some adequate decisions. Higher education has nothing to do with work, especially in the frontend..

Answer 3

You can start with a light frontend
upworkest.ru/legkij-frontend-mif-ili-realnost

Answer 4

I want to move forward, but I live in a city with a population of 15k people.

What difference does it make where you live if you work in the IT field?

did it clumsily, but did it

- bad approach. Nobody needs you to do anything except your mom. The customer or the employer needs quality, maybe not super, but it should be. You have to be a perfectionist and try to do well.

started with python, then moved to the front

Your comrade is strange, apparently the python knew that

Does education and work experience make a big difference in getting a job?

Your knowledge matters. Education is a guarantee of basic knowledge, if you show that they exist even without education, they will take you. If frontend knowledge is limited to knowing how div differs from span, you need to learn.
It's hard to give advice without seeing examples of your work. There are typesetters who won't add up their prices, but when you look at the code, you want to tear your hands off. It happens the other way around, a person says that he is a junior, but typesetting is not bad at all, and even in the absence of any deep knowledge, you can work with him, realizing that he is progressing and pulling knowledge like a sponge. But if you are only 18 - why not go to a specialized university?

Answer 5

Thanks everyone for the replies!
At the expense of a specialized university: you know what authority parents have in our country (and not only in our country, probably).
After the 9th I was not allowed to go to another city, and until the 11th I was not allowed
to.

Answer 6

Education _with knowledge_ plays little more than none.
To begin with, get a job remotely for any salary, where they will take it, and then you will understand what to do.

Answer 7

Education affects:
1. Employment in government offices.
2. Hiring in large corporations.
3. Obtaining a "working" visa in foreign countries.
Nothing more.
Provided that you are really more competent than a person without a diploma, everyone else will prefer you.