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I feel like I'm misunderstanding your question, because there's tons of other work when it comes to programming. Desktop UI programs of many different types (ex, web browser, chat, games, etc), command line utilities, compilers, operating systems, data bases... the list is long.

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I recently got really into databases. However, coming from the "web dev world", I'm still struggling to decide whether the time invested is really worth it. From an educational point of view, it damn sure is. But in order to make a transition into this area professionally, I'm not sure given the low number of companies that are working in this area (worse here in Europe).

Wondering if databases are worth learning? SQL is still one of the most in demand tech skills and has been for decades (for good reason in my opinion).

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