I would much rather be a welder or even a line worker in a factory than a call centre employee, personally. Though, I'd certainly take living in this decade to

I would much rather be a welder or even a line worker in a factory than a call centre employee, personally. Though, I'd certainly take living in this decade to living in previous decades. I do think something has been lost though. In a healthy manufacturing area of generations past someone who was 'hardworking and reliable' could get a 'decent' job. The financial rewards, self esteem and such from these jobs were deemed adequate by the people of the times. Get over the hurdle and you can be fine. Today, 'hardworking and reliable' is not really sufficient. Those cookie cutter jobs don't exist. I think politicians are at a loss because it just isn't clear what a person needs to do to qualify them for employment in this world. Some new jobs are highly specialised, like programming. These are hard to get people in to, but at least it sounds possible to train people for them. But, how the hell do you qualify people people who are 32 and have been unemployed for the past 3 years to be social media analysts?