[rosencrantz]

You can try and just gain more experience and solve problems for more organizations and companies. Have a GitHub or GitLab profile with your projects. Worst case, get any programming gig, try and solve the problems for them, then you can get a reference from them and move on.

[kingslayer]

Yep yep, I have a github. As for solving problems for companies and stuff, how would I go about that? Like finding small companies where I offer my services for free?