Hi, welcome to Steemit! I'm thinking about learning WordPress myself, how long would you say it'd take to develop a website using WordPress and what are the job opportunities like for someone starting out as a freelancer? I know a HTML, CSS and JavaScript to an extent already but I'm very rusty.
If you are familiar with the basic concepts of HTML, CSS and JS then you are more than on your way to being able to easily get started with WordPress. One of the biggest plus points of WordPress is the huge range of plugins that are available which can often shorten the development time considerably. Take for example a static website, if you wanted to add some fancy Javascript or jQuery in order to get some desired functionality - you will likely find a plugin that has been created, verified safe and ready to install in seconds. There are times when I have to write a new plugin myself because one doesn't exist but for the most part the plugin repository has all you will ever need.