Ship It! – Episode #123

A learning mindset, starting with COBOL

featuring David Beale

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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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Chapters

1 00:00 This is Ship It! 00:27
2 00:52 Sponsor: System Initiative 03:31
3 04:28 The opener 00:51
4 05:23 David's early life 01:32
5 06:54 Reason for COBOL 00:53
6 07:48 Lessons learned 00:56
7 08:44 Preparing for a job 01:31
8 10:14 90's internet 04:41
9 14:56 Learning networking 02:18
10 17:14 Growing through troubles 02:08
11 19:22 David's self help journey 05:03
12 24:25 Jumping jobs 05:59
13 30:40 Sponsor: Coder.com 02:24
14 33:25 Reason to migrate from Heroku 01:10
15 34:35 Biggest startup takeaways 00:54
16 35:29 Languages are all the same 01:14
17 36:43 Patterns in different environments 04:48
18 41:32 Early tech interviews 05:51
19 47:23 SREs are important 01:21
20 48:43 Take-home interviews 02:13
21 50:57 David's other projects 02:10
22 53:07 The current tech market 02:27
23 55:33 Favorite startup job 01:25
24 56:59 David's socials 00:24
25 57:35 Sponsor: Sentry 03:17
26 1:01:01 The closer 14:45
27 1:15:46 Outro 01:07

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