Everybody wants to hire a flying purple unicorn that is a master of "full stack." It seems nobody has time for "jack of all trades, master of some." But knowing

Everybody wants to hire a flying purple unicorn that is a master of "full stack." It seems nobody has time for "jack of all trades, master of some." But knowing only one or two domains is a step on the ladder of programmer competence, and there's no shame in it at all. As other commenters say, you have to start somewhere. And it's incredibly hard as a developer to go from intermediate to truly advanced mastery—there's very little training and mentoring coming from the employer direction (because, as Sweet Brown says, ain't nobody got time for that: anybody who is a real "ninja" is swamped), and therefore the only sane strategy is to take complete responsibility for your own career development, continuing education, and improval of skillset. But that's just another reason why developers should be paid more.