&gt; &quot;No willingness to train people to spec&quot;<p>Absolutely 100% this.  There has been an unsettling trend for employers not wanting to invest in their employees.  This includes training as well as compensation.  Now employers in general expect colleges &#x2F; university to adapt their degrees into job preparation programs and do all the training for them.<p>In some ways I can understand that employers are much more reluctant to spend money on developing employees as programs such as pensions that used to create a long term relationship between the employee and employer no longer tend to exist.