I have been trying for years. I fail at everything. The thing is this, just knowing how to program and do DOM manipulation isn't good enough. You need to have a stack/framework or 5 that you know like clockwork and as intuitively as a language. I thought by now I would know enough but its really going to be another year of learning node/express/mongoose/mongo/jade/programming patterns/web apis/authentication and god knows what else before the 'big' $20hr checks come rolling in. Seriously , if you don't have enough 'intuitive' understanding of a stack coming into it then you're dead before you've entered the door. Learning a stack is like learning a new language. I have written in PHP but trying to learn CakePHP or any of the other PHP frameworks is a large time investment. I tried Rails and plopped. I've now finally settled on node with express but learning mongoose, ajax w/mongoose and jade in conjunction with api's and storing dom id's and whatever else takes time as building muscle memory is the only route to employment. When I was younger I use to play with drum machines and electronic music equipment a lot and knew certain pieces of it like the back of my hand. The only way I see myself making any real money is to learn a stack literally as well as I knew that music equipment when I was a kid. That means striving to know every granular piece of it....and that takes time.