How to break out of a niche role?
I currently work at a government contractor company that hired me out of school little over three years ago. Since that was the start of when layoffs were occuring, I took the job despite the techstack since it was the only job offer I had. I'm trying to job hop as not only do I want more money, but the company finances are in bad shape so I'm being proactive against any future cuts. I'm finding it impossible to get interviews for companies that have any remotely modern tech stacks or practices. Even more so, the couple of interviews I did have, I didn't make it past the ai rounds where I was told to design and work with a model on a given task. Due to the sensitive nature of what I work on (government contractor) and because my company is losing money, we don't have a budget for ai so my experience with it consists of simple shit on the free chats on my own time. The tech stack we work with is a C backend with C# winforms. I've been applying to mostly .NET roles as that's what I've spent most of my time up skilling on, but I'm finding I have less and less time to up skill and apply to jobs as I've been been given responsibility for shit like being oncall, devops, or training juniors. It also seems like my resume is not making it past the filters as I don't have real job experience with a decent stack. I'm getting overwhelmed as it seems like each day I'm getting more and more pigeonholed into this shit job I'm trying to escape that will one day be the death of my career. But I really don't know how I'm supposed to break out of it.