Agreed. College educated people tend to never think much about the overwhelming amount of tacit knowledge needed for less prestigious and apparently simple jobs

Agreed. College educated people tend to never think much about the overwhelming amount of tacit knowledge needed for less prestigious and apparently simple jobs. Still, I can feel the pain of the author, having gone through several months of unemployment at the beginning of my marriage. You did everything the elders told you to do, and still you end up getting the short stick and thrown to the sidewalk. I was able to pivot my career and bounce back, in part due to being still youngish... in part thanks to the support of my family. But I can clearly see what a shipwreck that would have been 20 years later, minus a spouse and plus a couple of teenager kids.