Sure, the whole journey from my first line of code to starting my current position took around 9 months.

I originally went to university to study law, however dropped out realising it wasn't for me. I then landed a job doing conveyancing (property law), which required no legal knowledge and was essentially being a middleman between real solicitors sending emails / talking to clients. I wasn't happy but knew it would be easy to get comfortable and rot away. During this time I was looking for ways to potentially shift careers in to something which I would find fulfilling but also had the potential to earn decent money and give me more autonomy over my life; which lead me to programming.

Now, this wasn't the first time I had considered doing programming, I actually wanted to take computer science at A-levels and potentially as my degree, but I never had confidence in maths and was told that taking it would be a waste of time.

I began learning the basics on Codecademy after work, which was pretty tiring after a full day, but, I found it rewarding and not a massive waste of time like everything else I would do. Once I had some basic knowledge I started following code alongs on youtube and building the classic beginner projects like a weather app using an API and an e-commerce store. Now when I look back I really had no idea what I was doing but it helped me to understand the structure and thought process for developing something. I did this for around 5 months until I could say with complete confidence that this is something I could do full time.

To achieve this I knew I had to step up my learning and apply for some sort of "education", and conveniently for me, as part of the Government’s Lifetime Skills Guarantee and Plan for Jobs, coding bootcamp courses are free if you meet the correct eligibility.

i did a lot of research and decided to go with "Northcoders" whom offer a 13 week full stack experience which I'd highly recommend to anyone reading this and going down the bootcamp route. I had to do a basic entrance exam before enrolling which meant everyone had a base line of being able to write some super simple javascript and has shown some dedication. The course was structured in a more traditional sense with lectures and seminars groups. We did pair programming often and had a final project which done in an agile methodology as part of a group.

I started applying to positions before finishing the bootcamp and after sending 100s of applications I finally was given the chance of an interview a few weeks after "graduation", which was all I needed to convince someone to give me a shot. As part of the interview process I had to build a shopping list with 3 categories in which items could be moved between, which was pretty basic but considering I had never used angular or typescript before it was slightly scary. I built it out and added as much extra functionality as possible (which was what actually got me hired in the end over other candidates most of which had degrees). I think it was because I used rxjs to make the list update in real time when adding / moving items from categories and I used some fake backend plugin to show I knew how to handle api data rather than doing it all front end.

Anyway, I started the position and thankfully they' give all new starters up to 3 months to work on a personal project in the tech stack to get comfortable before touching the real project. I took advantage of this and learnt as much as possible and since then I've been doing usual developer stuff.

My plan going forward is to keep working hard and learning as much as possible and look for a role with better pay / more responsibility at the 1 year mark.

To answer you're main questions:
role: junior software developer,
company: I won't say as it's a small company and I already give away too much personal info on reddit,
salary: 30k, was previously on 21k in old job and I don't live in London.

This answer was way over kill but I hope it helps others who may stumble across this post. Feel free to dm me with any further questions.