Hey everyone, I’m currently in an unrelated field and am hoping to make a switch to fullstack web development at some point. I’m fairly knowledgeable in HTML and CSS and am working on getting better with React and JS. However, even entry-level jobs all seem to require 3-5 years of experience. There may be an opportunity at my current company to work with our systems team, mostly using SQL alongside PowerBI. Would this be a good stepping stone into the field I’d ultimately like to break into, or is that just a waste of time?
SQL has been around longer than I have been, and will be here for longer than I’ll ever be.
Uma said:
SQL has been around longer than I have been, and will be here for longer than I’ll ever be.
Well said 
SQL is transferable and would give you backend tech to help in becoming fullstack for sure. While you learn it, create a personal project using full stack techs, then use that project as proof for your resume and portfolio that you know what you’re doing, and then pray to the gods ‘DOGE’ doesn’t crash the economy before you can manage to find a job…
For the experience issue, yeah, it’s a problem for all juniors and even mid-levels right now. There is no real answer beyond just keep sending out the resumes and building projects that can prove you know what you’re doing. Make sure they are tested, deployed using some form of a CI/CD pipeline, and documented.
It’s a very bad time to be transferring to web dev, but it is still possible, it’s just probably going to require a LOT of resumes and a lot of frustration.
Dude, yes.
SQL is just a language of set theory.
The next thing you master is other types of database querying paradigms.
Then you enter the matrix.
SQL is basically used by all relational databases, and many vendors write adapters to allow SQL to be run against their data services, which developers then use because it’s so familiar to them. I’d say it’s a must skill in web dev.