[jfaucett]

What I love most about this industry is that its still open and accessible for anyone. In my experience (unless you go for an interview at google, or ibm or any big coorp) all you need is to have a great portfolio and just show what you've done. How do you get industry experience and "break in"? Well, just hop on github start contributing to projects that interest you, build one of your own project ideas, I'm sure you know people that would like to have a website, you can offer to build one really cheaply or even for free, just to get the experience. Once its online, you have another little spot for your portfolio.

As soon as you feel you have a couple really good examples send off your resume and your ready to go :)

Some really good things to know/have for getting a job in the industry:

1. Version Control (i.e. Git) - if you are really familiar with github and git merging, rebasing, commiting and working with other developers this is a huge plus. The great part is that its really easy to get involved on github and there are tons of resources for learning git.

2. Having good examples of your source code to show (again github)

3. Having completed projects / websites to show

wish you best of luck!

[tete]

I guess, if you have a _great_ portfolio Google or IBM will contact you. ;)