Philo_T_Farnsworth

Jesus. Those bands. $19.50. In 1992 when arguably all three of them were firing on all cylinders, creatively speaking.

they’re treated equally in most cases

and yet

Women in general are not allowed to drive

I realize I'm just talking about one thing here, but that's a pretty big thing. The words "in most cases" seem to undermine the reality of what's happening.

they make an old brain young again

I have literally said those exact words when describing to someone what ego death feels like while on a heavy dose of psilocybin. It's like being reborn. While in that state, I have remarked out loud to myself: "I feel clean". As in "new".

This entire idea feels like something Kramer from Seinfeld invented.

My question: Is it just me, or have companies completely lost their appetite for on-the-job training?

Background: I have been through a couple of jobs this year in the IT field, specifically network engineering. I've got 20+ years of experience in the field mostly on large enterprise networks. I'm an old pro at this. But what I've found in my job search is if you don't have experience with some specific platform but have experience with similar technologies, firms don't want to talk to you.

To pick an example, I have experience on SilverPeak SDWAN technology but not on Cisco ACI. They are basically the same thing, but I've run into situations where companies don't give two shits about the fact that I have experience on a competing product. I know the technology, I have worked with it before, just not that exact platform.

If this had only happened once I would chalk it up to happenstance, but I've run into this same type of situation again and again. Companies have zero appetite to even bring you in for an interview unless you 100% match the exact job requirements. Companies are running with leaner and smaller teams and expected to do more.

So much has changed since I started doing this, and it's disappointing.