A while back I got a used Sony α6000 with a fixed 50mm lens. I highly recommend not getting a zooming lens when you start out. Instead of zoom, go for aperture. Aperture determines the amount of light your camera is able to collect. Larger apertures allow you to take faster shots.

By using the same lens and adjusting aperture, you can unlock some of the black magic of photography. As aperture increases (lower f-stop), the shutter speed must be increased to avoid overexposure. As aperture decreases (higher f-stop), shutter speed must be decreased to avoid underexposure. After that, you'd think all else would be the same, but it's not! The large aperture shot will have a very narrow range of focus, capturing incredible detail on the subject (like individual hairs on a bird's feathers). Contrary, longer exposures and smaller apertures will expand the range which is in focus, allowing you to capture both foreground and background details, but requiring a more steady hand or a tripod.

Larger aperture lenses are also perfect for pointing up at the night sky and capturing 10-20 second exposures (tripod and delay mandatory), pulling incredible detail out of the Milky Way which is invisible to the naked eye.

I suppose it all depends on what you want to do. Wildlife photography demands a telephoto lens, and if you want more control over what's framed in your photos without changing lenses or walking backwards into traffic some level of zoom is very helpful. IMO, the typical 'kit lenses' have too many compromises though. Don't get me wrong - they will produce much better photos than the rice-grain sized lens and sensor in your smartphone, but their aperture isn't the best, and large aperture zoom lenses get VERY expensive compared to fixed lenses.