That is a real concern of mine for my children (and myself, if I was to lose my job); these “re-training programs” don’t do anything if they can’t provide decent jobs (that won’t be sent to Asia or have Latinos trafficked here to fill them).
Yesterday afternoon I got home early in anticipation of the blizzard that wasn’t here in NJ, and for the first time in a while I watched daytime TV; the commercials are just sad. They’re advertising job training for people that require much less investment of time for better jobs than the no-skill ones; while the commercials themselves are nothing new, the number of young white people in them are.
I couldn’t imagine investing time & money in a college degree today; when I did 25 years ago there seemed to be more stability which is now gone altogether. Many of the AMericans I dealt with in financial institutions have been replaced by younger Asians, and people I know in trades have lost jobs to Hispanics. It is no mystery why our birthrate is so low; outside of government employment (which is rife with affirmative action), how is a young person to provide for a family today?
Sucks to be in a survival mindset again. It is getting old.