Genuine advice for a career change please?

I work a full time job in law at the moment but I want to become a software developer. I don’t want to go university. What would be my best way to go around this?

Dev roles want a few years coding experience. Truthfully i’m at a beginners stage (C#) where I only know the basics; readline writeline etc. I don’t have much time to learn coding as I work 6 days a week but I do want to start learning. (I do feel like i’ll never be able to do it though because of how long its taking me to learn the basics)

I want genuine advice as I don’t want to go back to university considering ive spent stupid money doing my undergrad and then my masters. I’ve applied for soft dev apprenticeships but I get rejected?

Please help.