Advice for those who don’t have any real world experience

The day before yesterday /u/fallenKlNG was looking for some advice in an /r/AskReddit thread about starting a successful career in coding. /u/JZ5U replied that I should make a self-post in /r/coding, so that’s exactly what I tried to do, but it doesn’t allow self-posts. Instead I publish this on my blog (that is a “bit” short on posts for a long time now). The following is a copy of my advice to him and to everyone else wanting to kickstart their career in the field.