Changing Careers to Become a Self Taught Developer

i'm curious how long it was from when you first started learning code in january 20 16 to when you called yourself a developer, and then when you first got paid for doing development work. i am self taught in a sense that i didn't go to school, but imave used people's tutorios and vidios and resources, so they taught me. So i'm just kind of passing the knowledge on if i can. I mean, i lmy sven people say, self tt atem, if it's the right way, because nobodyis villy truly self taught. We are all building on the knowledge of other people. But like, that's why it