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Dude2040

Basically cross-train on private sector money and time. There should be a "don't follow your dreams" social campaign.

That's difficult when there is a motivation and purpose glut. Lot's of people/kids struggling to find connection and purpose. They hope they can achieve this through higher learning.

An alienation epidemic. Everyone wants a job that's at least one of: personally meaningful, or clearly helpful to others. Also it should pay the bills well enough to gain you housing somewhere with decent schools. Good friggin' luck.

> Everyone wants a job that's [..] clearly helpful to others.

I can imagine no better symptom to show how utterly sick the current economic system is, than that it takes luck to find a job where one is helpful to others and paid well. Helping others in exchange for money is supposed to be the basis of the free market!

If a company is okay with employees "cross training" is that a problem? They're not forced to train employees, but the good ones will.

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