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Originally Posted by Jason14h
The issue is people leave school without a particular skill that makes them valuable, then the reach the 'real world' and quickly realize if you don't have a particular skill you can do that most people can not, it is hard to find someone to pay you !
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To some extent this is a legacy of the 60s and 70s, when you could still get a university degree in pretty much anything and get hired and trained up in specific job skills. Many Boomers enjoyed that avenue to a middle-class livelihood, failed to notice that it closed off in the late 80s (as GenXers could have told them if they asked), and gave their Millennial kids bad education advice.
Now that the kids of Gen X are reaching the age for post-secondary education, we're seeing enrolment in the humanities fall off a cliff