Excellent editorial Steve.

At my previous employer we spent years and interviewed hundreds of people trying to find qualified DBAs. This story, someone knows a few things and repeats them for years, is extremely common and quite shocking. The IT world is constantly shifting. If you're not shifting with it, you'll be out of a job. Even that simple job where you do three things over & over is going to shift at some point (heck, I hear people are actually upgrading from SQL Server 2000).