@LunaFoxgirlVT You're not wrong... sadly employers either want a diploma or previous experience. So if self-employment isn't an option for someone you won't have many choices left.
That said: Holy f***... We'll have to teach our students the *basics* of programming, because the universities fail to do so for 10+ years now. Students that are good were already good before university.
Personally I wish I had more math in university... So much I had to learn by myself.