Besides what the title says, feel free to share your own experience or if you want to hijack the thread, feel free to do so with your own questions. Maybe we could even make this a monthly thing, supporting each other.

I speak two languages fluently and have a basic to intermediate in a third one. Last year I graduated from Psychology and I have some experience from doing internships. They amount to roughly 700+ hours in two different fields.

On the other hand, I have been teaching myself to code on and off for the past two years and full time for this one.

Language of choice: Python. I have dabbled with html, css, ansible, vagrant, git; among others. Currently I am doing the second part of the course Systematic Program Design and MiTx: 6.00.1x, Intro to CS and Programming using Python. I'm also working through the exercises in freecodecamp. Other courses and tuts won't be mentioned.

Hopefully this will give you a fair idea of my background. Now, the reason I am asking is because last week I applied to a job in Germany (I live in Central America [work visa is not an issue]), which was an internship (paid) as a research analyst. Obviously I didn't get it because of where I live.

Search for a job where I live currently? I did that for four months, every week after graduating. I got a single response. Additionally, most jobs I could get would barely cover rent. Let alone food and transportation for the rest of the month. In a way, it doesn't make much sense - at least to me it doesn't. Thus, Germany being my country choice. Moving to Germany and searching for a job isn't an option. I don't have the funds for that.

Any advice, suggestions, or if need be, even wake up calls would be appreciated.

Thank you for taking the time to read.

P.S. Half way through, this felt a bit like rubber duck "programming" :)

My github account if anyone is interested. Not much in it. https://github.com/teichopsia-