Hi this is my first post. Kind of annoyed at the job market right now. I've applied to a lot of positions without much luck. My internship last summer got cancelled bc of covid, so all my actual job experience is retail. It's hard to break into the field even with a college degree.

Welcome. It can be hard to break into the job market, especially at present. The only answer is to keep on applying for literally everything, build up some code on github, contribute to some open source projects and keep your cv up to date.

It's a slog, but the rewards can eventually be worth it.

Hello and welcome to devRant.

@nibor is right. From my 2 cents - I personally think it's easiest if you have something to show off (I started as "I can hack tohether a PHP script") and aim for small company (for me that's marketing web / wordpress 'devs' - they needed someone who can actually do PHP, I was 7th employee).

Another option are some corporations that offer students internships (given you are student).

Medium-sized companies sounds like will be hardest to get started in (at least from my expirience)

What stops you from learning django and react on your own?

@iceman because I'm currently learning angularJS on my own and I try to stick to one thing at a time when learning new things because otherwise I'm a mess.

@DubbaThony I'm not a student anymore. I graduated in November 2020. No one gives you internships once you've already graduated unfortunately. My freshman year I wasn't on the ball and didn't look for internships at all. My sophomore year I didn't look enough. My junior year I applied to a shit ton and got interviews that went well and even signed a contract but it all got canceled. And then I graduated a semester early.

@punker1999 then keep learning, build something and you will get with ease a junior frontend position

@punker1999 please tell me you are learning Angular and not Angularjs 🙏

Angularjs is version 1, and nobody sane still uses it. Versions 2 onwards are just Angular - something that causes as much confusion amongst recruiters as java and javascript.

@nibor Thank you so much for the explanation. I just realized some of the code I've been writing is a tangled mess because I thought they were the same thing. Yikes.