I have a grand total of 3 months of work experience. I was a jr-jr laravel dev back then and I knew pretty much nothing except connecting a route to a view through a controller. Nowadays I mainly work on my own projects and have some freelance gigs from time to time with Laravel.
The thing is; I can build things. I am at a point where I can build pretty much anything there is to build with Laravel. But I'm definitely not a professional. I don't write tests for example. So far I've built many Laravel apps and never written a test in my life. I don't know what service container means, I tried to use websockets once and I failed miserably. And these are only the things that I know that I don't know.
I wasn't even looking for a job but apparently my father told his friend about me and he had a friend who was looking for a backend developer. From what I understood from the 10 minute WhatsApp call interview-like thing I had with the guy, they're a company that makes mobile games and they're using PHP/Laravel as backend.
He asked me "Let's say I have a script for a lotto game written in Laravel, would you be able to understand and edit the code?" And I said "I can write a lotto game from scratch with Laravel in less than a week". So cringe, I know. I wanted to kick myself as soon as those words left my mouth. But apparently that was exactly what he wanted to hear, because he said that me saying that assured him and that he'll talk to the ceo and get back to me tomorrow, and because I said that, he thinks "it'll most likely be positive".
I am wide open to any suggestions you have. Thanks.
