[physicsguy]

I think people massively underestimate “being in the right place at the right time” factor in their lives.

My current job - company gets big contract m, desperately needs to scale up. I was fed up with previous job, and just happened to have used Django. Got headhunted and got a huge pay rise. Got to company to find that they literally couldn’t find Django developers for love nor money locally. I’d only really taken on a tiny side project in the last job - had I not used it, they probably wouldn’t have been interested in me here.

[rightbyte]

Imagine if they could like, hire a developer, and task him with reading up on Django for two or three months.

It is insane how much companies pay for refusing to pay for training.

[physicsguy]

It’s time - now I’m here, we’re training existing people up, but if they’ve not god a good mental model of backend development then it’s going to be a challenge.