Comment by plasticbugs

This was very similar to my experience. I had been writing code as a hobby for nearly a decade while working in TV production. In 2017, I attended Hack Reactor, an in-person bootcamp here in SF. I applied for engineering roles while practicing coding interview questions with probably close to 1000 applications netting about 40 follow-up interviews with around 10 or so on-site interviews. After eight months, I was offered a temporary role at a healthcare startup. Five months later that role ended, it was another couple of months before landing a role at O’Reilly Media where I now am a full stack software engineer working primarily in JavaScript and Python. I was elected “class president” by my bootcamp cohort. I was also the last person in my cohort of 30 people to be hired.