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Maybe they reject "retraining" because the programs available suck and are useless and unlikely to actually help them improve their life, and then tell stories
by CPLX 9y ago
Maybe they reject "retraining" because the programs available suck and are useless and unlikely to actually help them improve their life, and then tell stories to out of town reporters when asked. Just a theory.
- _Codemonkeyism 9y agoOr when reading the article "[...] he found more than one hundred federally funded courses covering everything from computer programming to nursing. He settled instead on something familiar: a coal mining course. 'I think there is a coal comeback,' said the 33-year-old son of a miner. [...] 'I have a lot of faith in President Trump,' Sylvester said."
- toomuchtodo 9y agoCould you have also mentioned the part where they aren’t paid while training and they have no guarantee of a job after training?
- _Codemonkeyism 9y agoI could copy and paste the whole article. I could quote your lines. I could quote the lines where it says he is training for $13/h low paying coal job because coal companies sell their assets to companies that only hire temporary workers. I could quote the part where it says that new companies will not come if there is no trained workforce, so those people are stuck in a catch-22. I could quote the part where it says that people retrain where there is no hope, but don't retrain where there is coal left. I could quote the part where it says coal companies move to natural gas. I could quote the part where one miner says the coal is a great career path for the next 50 years. Or people could be interested and read the article.
- yorwba 9y agoDon't those also hold for the coal mining course?
- colmvp 9y agoThat may or may not be true, but the fact remains there is no shortage resources online to self-learn a great deal of material related to specific jobs, augmenting it with getting mentorship from people in real life.