I kind of expected 'learn on someone else's dime' to be about a company providing training as part of your job rather than a company hiring people with the expectation that they both do the job they are hired for and learn on their own everything needed to handle whatever new problem arises on any given day.
That doesn't sound at all revolutionary to me. That's basically every company I've worked for - we pay you to do a job but we also expect you to learn on your own time to keep your skillset up. The idea of the company actually helping you with the time and resources to do that learning would be something actually novel...
Sure there's value in on-the-job learning but most jobs give you that. There's also value in the kind of learning that you can only do in time outside of the time needed to do the tasks that are expected of you as part of your job.
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I kind of expected 'learn on someone else's dime' to be about a company providing training as part of your job rather than a company hiring people with the expectation that they both do the job they are hired for and learn on their own everything needed to handle whatever new problem arises on any given day.
That doesn't sound at all revolutionary to me. That's basically every company I've worked for - we pay you to do a job but we also expect you to learn on your own time to keep your skillset up. The idea of the company actually helping you with the time and resources to do that learning would be something actually novel...
Sure there's value in on-the-job learning but most jobs give you that. There's also value in the kind of learning that you can only do in time outside of the time needed to do the tasks that are expected of you as part of your job.