You have 9 months of time to make use of, the first thing you need to do is cut expenses and start preparing what you need to take care of her during her 9 months. Get health insurance for her if she does not already have it. If you are currently unemployed you need to get a job any job, I don't care if you are washing dishes in a truck stop dinner or being a walmart greeter you need anything that lets you stack up cash. Read baby books and possibly reach out to local churches if you are in dire need of charity and a support network.
Once you have a job (shitty minimum wage or not) you can focus spare time on advancing your skill set. Not very many hobby projects are going to tell employers whether they want to hire you or not, most of them wont even care to look or bother asking about it unless they are interested in hiring you in the first place.
If you live in or near a larger city look into local datacenter or hosting companies, they are often hiring low level employees with basic computer skills. If you live in a smaller city look into IT jobs (also available in larger areas), either in-house for individual companies or for IT business where they are paid to send their workers out on calls. No job is beneath you, you are the bottom of the computer industry job market until you have experience and certifications.
What you need to focus on after a job is getting certifications since you dont have experience, this lets employers know that an outside 3rd party has vetted you to some extent and that you have worked in that language and field. I am not going to bother listing all the certifications you can get of learn online but just look it up. The more you have the better you look and the more doors that open for you.
I made decent cash right out of college working on Database Management, get yourself some SQL certs and find a job in that field to start your real career if you can, you can branch out after you have learned more.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/learning/sql-training.aspx
You have 9 months of time to make use of, the first thing you need to do is cut expenses and start preparing what you need to take care of her during her 9 months. Get health insurance for her if she does not already have it. If you are currently unemployed you need to get a job any job, I don't care if you are washing dishes in a truck stop dinner or being a walmart greeter you need anything that lets you stack up cash. Read baby books and possibly reach out to local churches if you are in dire need of charity and a support network.
Once you have a job (shitty minimum wage or not) you can focus spare time on advancing your skill set. Not very many hobby projects are going to tell employers whether they want to hire you or not, most of them wont even care to look or bother asking about it unless they are interested in hiring you in the first place.
If you live in or near a larger city look into local datacenter or hosting companies, they are often hiring low level employees with basic computer skills. If you live in a smaller city look into IT jobs (also available in larger areas), either in-house for individual companies or for IT business where they are paid to send their workers out on calls. No job is beneath you, you are the bottom of the computer industry job market until you have experience and certifications.
What you need to focus on after a job is getting certifications since you dont have experience, this lets employers know that an outside 3rd party has vetted you to some extent and that you have worked in that language and field. I am not going to bother listing all the certifications you can get of learn online but just look it up. The more you have the better you look and the more doors that open for you.
I made decent cash right out of college working on Database Management, get yourself some SQL certs and find a job in that field to start your real career if you can, you can branch out after you have learned more. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/learning/sql-training.aspx