I made a mistake

>>18572949
I'd recommend being bold and emailing a careers account for a company you would want to work for, that is the best way to gauge what they want.

Is your living situation tough? Is that why you nerd more money? Getting extra coin to piss it away on fast food, a new car, hentai porn isn't a good excuse to change job ESPECIALLY something you like.

Paysvales weren't included so I'm going to say LARP

>>18573254
Thanks for the reply, anon. I guess in a way I'm still figuring out where to go in my career. The reason I chose to go into design was because I wanted more creative freedom in what I do. But now after two years, I realised that maybe I haven't been realising my full potential as someone who can solve problems, something my degree taught me how to do. I feel like my field is undervalued compared to the more technical developers, which is why I want to transition.

My living situation is fairly average, I live frugally but even then I only manage to save a tiny bit each month. I know I'll be needing more money down the road in the future, I would like to own a house eventually. I'm 24, I live in the UK and make 20k currently. Maybe I'm being jealous and greedy, but when I see other people my age doing what I should have chosen to do and get paid well it just makes me depressed.

Software developer here, been in the industry for 8 years. I think you're fine. You did fuck up by going into design, since many web development jobs also encompass design, but you've only blown two years. If you for sure want to go into web side shit, learn Javascript really well. Learn jQuery, react, node, vue, etc. Ruby+rails might also be useful for you.

You can definitely still get a junior position just fine. Your design experience will be an asset, but you'll now have the burden of proving you can actually code and like to do it since you chose to go away from it.

If you have trouble getting directly into a development position, go into QA first, preferably QA automation.

>>18573280
Bro, 20k pounds or USD???

>>18573299
I'm definitely going to be more hands on with the development side of things with my next position as a web designer. I'm thinking web dev would be the most logical progression for me at this point also, and I'll definitely spend some time to learn Javascript/jQuery properly. What's the bare minimum for a web dev or JS position? Do I really have to keep up with all the current JS libraries? Since I specialised in UI and UX as well how do I leverage my experience in design to make them relevant to development?

>>18573303
It's 20k pounds yeah

>>18573327
That's crazy low dude! I started at 60k USD in 2009 and that was sort of a low ball offer. I made 119K USD last year. You really should move back to dev ASAP for the sake of your future. You can't have a family on a 20K salary.

As far as JS frameworks, you don't need to know them all, but you absolutely need to at least know one or two, just to prove that you can grasp frameworks and concepts like that. The stuff I listed before are good starting points.

Also learn a Javascript testing framework like Jasmine.