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Old 11-17-2010, 09:04 PM   #53
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Thinking about people changing careers or long-time employment at least 3 times throughout their working lives is very common. I did and also combined past skills and education along the way.

What is upsetting is when people just like what they do and want to continue doing it but are forced out by such things as a recession. And so many big employers (really true in Heartland states) don't have any re-training programs in place.

This is very different in other countries like Germany, for example. The US has never really put things like this in place for our workforce in the manufacturing areas. Hummm.... and look at how much of this work is being done by US companies in other countries! Even "Green" industries like solar energy is seeing this as solar panels were devloped here and are now manufactured outside of the US.
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