Because the secure jobs are going to go away. Customs officer? Governments will be facing increasing deficits in the future and will be looking for anything t

Because the secure jobs are going to go away. Customs officer? Governments will be facing increasing deficits in the future and will be looking for anything they can cut. Manager in a bank? Automation is eating the jobs of bank tellers, and will also eat the jobs of people who manage bank tellers, and the jobs of people who manage them. As for the $90k-salaried .NET developer, his company is about to be a victim of the recession, and the next job he gets is going to be $50k a year, no health insurance. Pensions have disappeared for private sector workers in the past 30 years, and there's serious thinking about how to make them disappear for public sectors. And if anybody thinks they're going to retire comfortably on a defined-contribution plan, they've got a hole in their head.