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Find an entry level job for on-paper resume experience and keep jumping ship to better paid positions.

You have no paid work experience and no portfolio and no open source code so no one is going to pay you $80K. Gotta work your way up.

I started working at my university as a student webdev. Then got an entry level job at a firm, then kept finding better paid positions. Employers want to see work experience.

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how can i bypass that, is it possible to makeup for lack of work experience.

Not that it matters for me. Because 0 times all projects still kinda 0. Lol. But seriously lets say i have 5 months of experience through some job. And then i go for something else what else could help me there then with experience part.

You are not likely to bypass that lack - I have a MS in Math from a top 15 math program and I took a humbling $51k starting salary in frontend web development. I managed to more than triple that in roughly 1 1/2 years largely on my hard work & a bit of luck.

Of course, don't stop trying, but your expectations meed to be realistic.

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