TuffaloDeac10
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I suppose on some level, some company could do what you are saying, but we have finite resources and we apply them in the manner that we see most efficient. The notion that we could've trained this position from within, in our circumstance, is just laughable. We knew the position was going to be needed (which is why we decided to hire) but it would take many, many years to train our manager to be our director (seeing as how we'd never had a director). Any "small" growing company in our position that would commit those kinds of resources to a position that would (re. "may") be years away (time is uncertainty) is foolish.
I got a little off subject, but the whole point of the example is that jobs are becoming more and more complicated because the economy is becoming more and more complicated. More skills are needed, the days of working the same job for 40 years are becoming more and more rare....if you're not getting better you're getting worse...not just from the standpoint of a company but from the standpoint of an employee as well.
This might be (read: is) true in the traded sector, but most jobs are not in the traded sector.