[thelist] Drupal... what's with the sudden hype?  Erika ekm at
seastorm.com Fri Dec 5 13:42:18 CST 2008  Tris wrote: > Our
industry is all about learning new skills and knowing that what
is > technologically vital to know today, might not be
tomorrow... so this > is just another rung to the ladder that is
being a web professional..  > my knowledge... this thread has
just made me realise that no matter  > what I learn in uni..
it'll be superceeded in good time.. :-(  Right.  This is a meta-
issue.  It is really easy to get frustrated when  you keep
running into job descriptions that are near-misses for you,
especially when you feel convinced that you could do the work if
the  employer gave you room to get up to speed.  My former boss
took a job in 1998, spent his first three months on the  job
learning perl, and the next three building a CMS for the
organization, that they are still using today.  So it can be
worthwhile  to invest in potential, and I do think lot of
potential employers miss  the boat when the