[Beltiras]

Don't feel like you need to know everything when you start. A friend of mine just got hired to his first posting after uni. He will spend 9 months at least learning the ropes of the job. Reason why is that it's very esoteric and not a sought after skill. Thing is thou, it's a backend process for a product that's very old and is required by many compliance rules even if it kinda does nothing. It will still be in demand for decades still and he can comfortably trust that he will have this job for as long as he wants it. Thing is there's a ton of IT work that needs to be done and nobody wants to do it. And since nobody wants to, nobody knows how. The only way for companies to get those tasks done is hire someone that has to learn on the job.

[ExtremisAndy]

Do you have any examples of the type of work you’re talking about? I want to get into tech so bad I can’t stand it, but my education is in the humanities and while I’ve written thousands and thousands of lines of non-trivial* code in a variety of languages I taught myself, on paper, I have nothing to put on a resume (I can’t imagine anybody cares about my personal pet projects), so I’m thinking being willing to do some type of job that nobody else wants to do may be my only shot (though I’m quite possibly way off base here, as well).

* by non-trivial code I do not mean that it’s necessarily complex… just that I’ve written code to solve actual problems I’ve had and not just lab/learning exercises… I may be misusing the term “non-trivial code”, and if so I apologize.

[Beltiras]

Sharepoint management is one. Maybe that one is going away now in the age of Teams, or maybe there's conterintuitively more need than before. I know there's a lot of need for COBOL in old systems and nobody but NOBODY is picking up COBOL these days. Thing is with these type of gigs they are hard to find. It's the long tail of computer use. There isn't a job board titled "Dinosaur maintenance".