A learning mindset, starting with COBOL (Ship It! #123)
The ability to learn on the job has been a critical skill for David Beale throughout his career. Is the job market not allowing that anymore?
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- 0:00 This is Ship It!
- 0:52 Sponsor: System Initiative
- 4:28 The opener
- 5:23 David's early life
- 6:54 Reason for COBOL
- 7:48 Lessons learned
- 8:44 Preparing for a job
- 10:14 90's internet
- 14:56 Learning networking
- 17:14 Growing through troubles
- 19:22 David's self help journey
- 24:25 Jumping jobs
- 30:40 Sponsor: Coder.com
- 33:25 Reason to migrate from Heroku
- 34:35 Biggest startup takeaways
- 35:29 Languages are all the same
- 36:43 Patterns in different environments
- 41:32 Early tech interviews
- 47:23 SREs are important
- 48:43 Take-home interviews
- 50:57 David's other projects
- 53:07 The current tech market
- 55:33 Favorite startup job
- 56:59 David's socials
- 57:35 Sponsor: Sentry
- 1:01:01 The closer
- 1:15:46 Outro
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