Likelyhood of finding programming job

What are you sliding?

Age has no relevance. If you want other threads up top, then it's your own job to post something relevant there.

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Somehow, you're supposed to count education as job experience.

Make a portfolio, like an artist. Do some projects, host the code on ShitHub, mention them in resume. As someone with that university degree: most of my coworkers had a different major. HR treats people with BSs as fungible. Though, the guy with the business degree had a portfolio of small projects to demonstrate that he could actually code.

Then know people at companies retard

Good advice, let me just do that.

*snaps fingers*

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The software world is in real big demand, but is accurate. Expect to grab one of those jobs in a matter of days, though.

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I'm employed right now, but it took ~6 months to find my first job because I only had a 3-month contract as work experience and almost every place I applied was looking for either 1-3 years of experience or >3.6 GPA to compensate.

Here's a fun experiment. If you're in college, apply to a couple jobs using a fake name on your resume and credentials as if you had just graduated. If you don't get any responses, then you have a problem you aught to solve sooner, rather than later.