...but surely there are Drupal shops around who would be willing to spend a little money to invest in future talent.
Surely there are... Many companies are already spending a lot of money on "future talent". At Zivtech we've trained up the majority of our ~18 developers/coding designers/project managers, and we'll continue to focus on building our farm team (we're always open to free agents, but there are way too few of those on the market). Acquia also has a large scale "Acquia U" aimed at training inexperienced developers.
No sane company would wait for "the market" to turn talented and intelligent people into the developers/designers/PMs we need- if you want to grow as a company, you've gotta grow your "farm system".
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Surely there are... Many companies are already spending a lot of money on "future talent". At Zivtech we've trained up the majority of our ~18 developers/coding designers/project managers, and we'll continue to focus on building our farm team (we're always open to free agents, but there are way too few of those on the market). Acquia also has a large scale "Acquia U" aimed at training inexperienced developers.
No sane company would wait for "the market" to turn talented and intelligent people into the developers/designers/PMs we need- if you want to grow as a company, you've gotta grow your "farm system".