I&#x27;m looking right now and my previous experience has made me afraid it&#x27;s going to be this way for me (&quot;rivers of aerated bullshit.&quot;)  Add to it that I don&#x27;t know very many people here in the Bay Area, didn&#x27;t study CS, didn&#x27;t go to a &quot;name&quot; school, and half my software engineering experience doesn&#x27;t seem to count because it wasn&#x27;t web dev, and I&#x27;m just seeing a very long road in front of me.  I hope it doesn&#x27;t take a year.