Experience is underrated. Most companies look for people with the exact toolset that they want, rather than look for related skills and a history of learning.

Experience is underrated. Most companies look for people with the exact toolset that they want, rather than look for related skills and a history of learning. I work in sysadmin operations. I have often come in and cleaned up a cowboy implementation, or learned a completely new application (usually undocumented) - deployment and operation - to the point that I can turn around and teach it and write documentation and automation for it. I'm also very cynical about anything that is the "latest and greatest", because I've seen behind the curtain way too many times.