>One fellow in his late 40s was a security guard at the college, and so classes were inexpensive for him. He was particularly drawn to my class because there we

>One fellow in his late 40s was a security guard at the college, and so classes were inexpensive for him. He was particularly drawn to my class because there were a number of Perl related jobs in the area at the time. >During my office hour after the class, we sometime chatted and I discovered that he had been working at a local manufacturing facility for almost 20 years. That facility had shut down some years earlier and all of the jobs moved overseas. There is a concierge in my building who was the lead engineer in a textile factory for about 20 years back in Poland. When he immigrated to Canada, he was unable to transfer credentials and had to take the concierge job to make ends meet. He once said to me, "This job has turned out to be a lot less temporary than I hoped." He was only half-joking. Seems like I meet a lot of middle-to-senior aged people in security in the same boat as him, which I find both fascinating and distressing.