What should I do to be taken seriously in the job market?

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What should I do to be taken seriously in the job market? I'm an European developer with 6 years of development experience who started coding for fun. One day, I wanted to know how computers do stuff, and, since then, I've been developing my personal projects and just doing stuff because I like to do so. Naturally, I´ve learnt a lot of 'sysadmin'/'devops(?)' regarding 'skills'. Like, first with a gh action that cloned and restarted my repos in a VPS. Then, I started using Linux, distro-hopping and learning how ilinux/computer work more deeply. Eventually, I got into OSS and got a home-server. Deployed some stuff in it with docker on debian. Then, I switched to proxmox and started hosting some of my own stuff in it containerized. After that, I got into Nix(OS) and started declaratively defining my systems in my desktop and some of my VMs... And, for the last year and a half, I've been doing some 'volunteer' developer work at a non-profit which has made me touch high-avaiability/k8s stuff. I really never did this looking for a job. I really like learning by myself. But now, I would like to get into the job market, and devops seem like a great path. I mean, I also like development but there's something intrinsically nice about deploying stuff and managing machines. For the last few weeks, I've tried applying for development jobs but all the replies I get are: either nothing, ignored or a rejection because of my lack of 'real job' experience. I guess my lack of formal education in development also affects these outcomes. And idk why, I get a feeling that no matter if I had a giant IaC orchestration system with 20 of the most relevant technologies repo in my GH profile, this wouldn't change the outcome. So, yeah. What could I do about it? [link] [handle]

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