He's not exaggerating the market there for people of other skillsets. Fresh new young people trained in other professions are having a very hard time of it as

He's not exaggerating the market there for people of other skillsets. Fresh new young people trained in other professions are having a very hard time of it as their more experienced peers in industry are taking the entry level positions rather than nothing at all. Now his friends might be unmotivated tools, have the wrong skillset for the area in which they live, or any number of things, but the economy is hard for some highly trained people even these days.