If you’re looking to break into tech, front end development is both a straight ahead and versatile way of getting there. You’ll have a specific base of skills that’ll make you attractive to employers, but one that’s broad enough to let you find an employment opportunity that works for you. Trust me, there’s no shortage of demand for front end development in a variety of jobs and environments.
In my experience if you want a job really fast you have to be fullstack, basically just learn Rest APIs and whatever javascript based framework you like of the main three as of now (ReactJS, AngularJS, VueJS) for frontend, but I think with just frontend you will do good, I mean its like every company is desperate for developers (at least where I live).