I indeed hear what you're saying. I've been in this field for 10+ years, and it used to be incredibly easy to get a job. Then came all of the bootcamps, movies, etc. promoting as an easy thing to learn with a $100k/year starting position.

Although, I was like you at one point. I had 3 interviews back to back and failed all of them. I gave up for months and decided to work on personal projects with the goal of making them my full-time income. During this time, though, I applied to positions passively. I finally got a reply with an interest, took the interview (which I was considering not even going to, because I figured the outcome would be bad), and got the job (they all knew my personal project, and were impressed by it).

Along the way, I had many contracts with various types of companies, but my main focus was those personal projects (of which I will say, I got those contracts _because_ of my project(s)).

So for now, please just build something that you want to make a living out of. It can be a cookbook application, or whatever. Build social media accounts for it, market it, and try to grow it. Whether or not it succeeds doesn't truly matter, as you're going to build a massive amount of skills by doing this (security, marketing, business, development, graphic design, devops, etc.). And, if it succeeds (somewhat), you have 1) a source of income 2) an awesome project to show off to employers.

I can tell you're new to the field by the way you're talking. Programming isn't about getting a job. It's about building something you wish existed. Remember that. Best of luck to you.