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What happens when your education is no longer relevant to the market? And you’ve had kids and don’t really have the time to retool and level up your skills to r
by steve_adams_86 3y ago
What happens when your education is no longer relevant to the market? And you’ve had kids and don’t really have the time to retool and level up your skills to regain your leverage. Or your industry becomes saturated with highly skilled people and your leverage is steadily reduced in ways you can’t address. Virtually no one is special enough to avoid some or even all of this.
- constantcrying 3y agoThen you are of very low value to your employer and a union acts as a social benefits organization. Essentially you are payed by the people whose skills are more valuable than yours.
- pandaman 3y agoAs I am approaching the retirement age, I don't see this happening. I actually can't even imagine education expiring somehow or marketable skills needing "retooling". But even if these scenarios all happened, you are basically advocating that somebody still have to provide highly paying job for you even though you don't have an education or skill and there are plenty of people who are higher skilled than you? Would you hire somebody like that to do work on your house or, perhaps, you'd like to receive medical treatment from a doctor like that? If not, why others should hire you?