Man, I hope so. I've been job hunting after my position with a government contractor was eliminated in February, and despite a decade of experience, I can't even get to the first round of interviews.
I think we're going to see a big shift towards small to medium IT/dev companies, and a ton of freelancers. I'm one of those, because I'm about to start doing IT work for businesses in my small town.
A lithium battery fire is a chemical fire, not an electrical one. There's pretty much a zero percent chance of getting electrocuted putting one out with water.
Lithium batteries contain little to no elemental lithium. They normally contain lithium cobalt oxide, lithium iron phosphate, or lithium nickel manganese cobalt oxide as the anode, and a lithium salt as the electrolyte.
Water is about the only way to put one out because it's an exothermic reaction (water is to cool it down so it stops), and two out of the three are self-oxidizing so you can't just smother it.
The biggest danger of a lithium battery getting wet is that it shorts, which can lead to a fire because it goes into thermal runaway. But this can happen if you have one in your pocket with spare change (most of the vape fires in the 2010s were this)
That's one thing that annoys me about lithium batteries. Every time there's an EV fire, people pop out of the woodwork to shit on the FD for using water to put it out.
Just because the name has lithium in it doesn't mean it's elemental lithium.
You're better off locating a call center and checking with them directly. The one I worked for had all job postings on their website.
One big plus of a call center is they love to promote from within the company. It's often because they don't want to pay market salaries, but if you treat it like an internship, it's not a bad deal.
I went from being an agent to being a senior server engineer in like 4 years, then jumped to a government contractor gig paying 3x what I was making there.
No judgement, though. I get the comfort pillow. I had one of those before I gave the stupid expensive free pillow my dad got from the mattress store a solid try.
Who the hell thinks Crocs are fancy?