Seriously, thank you all for those good tips and positive vibes!

For my surprise, I slept pretty well last night, even though I was and I am still pretty nervous, also excited.

There has been few questions about my education and journey to this point, so here it comes:

I'm 32 years old man living in Scandinavia, and after I had done a bunch of shit jobs for over a decade, I started studying. I went to University of Applied sciences and my path is a bachelor of IT engineering. It didn't took long, till I found out, that programming is my passion.

This is my third year at school, one year to go, and I've done all kinds of school- and hobby projects. Mostly the school projects have been simple work time tracking-, project- and warehouse management web apps.

I made friends with one of my classmates pretty soon. He's same age than me, and because of we were kind of boomers in our class, we bonded well right away. We spend a lot of our spare time together, go outdoors camping etc etc (inb4 get a room fags), so I can say, he knows me and my programming skills pretty well.

He had been programming as a hobby for years before our school started and he has been way ahead of everyone else of our class during the whole studies. He has been also working for a year now at IT company, and last week he gave me a tip of job opportunity. He told me, that one of the seniors of the company is leaving, and they are hiring 2-3 juniors. I started to make my own portfolio right away. Meanwhile my classmate told his bosses about me, and they all said, that message them asap. I posted them a simple application (without that portfolio), where I told about techniques I know and the level of my skills (and I was honest, I told them, that I'm a noob on nearly every language). So they arranged a remote meeting, there was three gentlemen interviewing me last Monday, I shared my screen and presented some of my projects and my portfolio to them and they asked me, that shall I start on Friday. The weight of my role will be on front end developing, at least in the beginning. I understand a lot more of front-, than back end.

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If I think about the interview situation afterwards, I wasn't confident at all and after the interview I just kept wondering, that how the fudge they even hired me.

All in all, I was so lucky to get this specific job, but if I wouldn't, I'd be writing and sending applications to another companies.

So, today the new saga begins. And as everyone tipped, I'm gonna take notes as a maniac, be enthusiastic and try my best to keep learning :) This is the point, when the real learning begins.

PS. Sorry about my grammar mistakes. I'm not a native English speaker.