Laid off, need help deciding where to go from here and my options on transitioning into other CS jobs /u/dadaton CSCQ protests reddit

Feeling pretty bad and lost about my (28) current job prospects and future, so I hope this is the right place to ask for help.

About me: I am living in germany and finished my bachelors degree in Media CS in 2022 and worked as a fullstack developer for a little over a year. Afterwards I worked as a fullstack developer and a senior frontend developer for only 6 months and fired me during the trial phase because they were unhappy with my performance.

I am aware how bad that looks in my resume and it’s probably why a lot of companies don’t bother inviting me to interviews. I do enjoy programming and IT, but dont really enjoy or am motivated in web dev and fullstack to be honest (which is most likely what caused me to perform sub par in the first place. I feel lie machine learning or data science would be more interesting for me to get into, but I am afraid I would have even worse chances getting into that currently since I dont have any work experience there and my resume in general.

So what should I do? Try to get any role as a fullstack dev with my experience and try to stay there for at least a few years while learning machine learning on the side so my resume looks good again and I dont have too long of a break between jobs, or just try to learn (and do stuff like leetcode or showable projects?), could that be enough to get into machine learning if you dont have work experience there? Maybe do online/evening university in that field so I actually have a degree to show that I can work in that field and just do anything I can get until then?

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you.

Feeling pretty bad and lost about my (28) current job prospects and future, so I hope this is the right place to ask for help.

About me: I am living in germany and finished my bachelors degree in Media CS in 2022 and worked as a fullstack developer for a little over a year. Afterwards I worked as a fullstack developer and a senior frontend developer for only 6 months and fired me during the trial phase because they were unhappy with my performance.

I am aware how bad that looks in my resume and it’s probably why a lot of companies don’t bother inviting me to interviews. I do enjoy programming and IT, but dont really enjoy or am motivated in web dev and fullstack to be honest (which is most likely what caused me to perform sub par in the first place. I feel lie machine learning or data science would be more interesting for me to get into, but I am afraid I would have even worse chances getting into that currently since I dont have any work experience there and my resume in general.

So what should I do? Try to get any role as a fullstack dev with my experience and try to stay there for at least a few years while learning machine learning on the side so my resume looks good again and I dont have too long of a break between jobs, or just try to learn (and do stuff like leetcode or showable projects?), could that be enough to get into machine learning if you dont have work experience there? Maybe do online/evening university in that field so I actually have a degree to show that I can work in that field and just do anything I can get until then?

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you.