[we’ve had 13 years of our professional life with a declining economy.]
Awe, boo hoo. Maybe that’s because bullshyte, buzzwords, and high-score on XBox Live aren’t very useful for actually PRODUCING something.
Those who can, do. Those who can’t, fail by teaching others that their failure isn’t really theirs.
Boomers have been such excellent teachers that we are seeing their influence today on the business world with Boomers as the captain of industry.
How is it working? Not very well!
As for me providing valuable skills, there’s a bunch of nurses who are nurses because of me. :) I tutored them so that they were able to get up to speed (and correct the extremely poor instruction they had received from their boomer teachers).
I’m not impressed with ‘common core’ and other boomer gimmicks designed to hobble the education of Americans. I go quite a bit further back. Perhaps you’ve heard of Dewey?