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
| Chapter Number | Chapter Start Time | Chapter Title | Chapter Duration |
| 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 |