Very true. Planning your life as a kid is a big gamble. How are you supposed to know which industry will be viable for a good career through the next decades?

Very true. Planning your life as a kid is a big gamble. How are you supposed to know which industry will be viable for a good career through the next decades? How can you know that other careers that are great today will die tomorrow? Some of us have lucked into the currently hot industries but that’s not because they had great insight when they were 18. We really need a system where people actually get opportunity to change careers and retrain instead of just being thrown away by companies as it’s happening now. I have seen a log n of perfectly capable but maybe older than 40 people being laid off without much advance warning and no opportunity to even try to adapt. Companies throw people away and the whole country throws away whole regions when trends change.