Retiring Baby Boomers leave hole in the job market

[ThatXS650Guy]

I'll add another avenue to a lifelong career.... the military. They use plumbers, carpenters, welders, auto mechanics.... 'bout every career you can think of, the military has.
Bonus: It don't cost a penny. Quiet the opposite, you get paid while you learn.

This^^ My son went to Mercer University, the oldest private university in GA on an ROTC scholarship. At the time, tuition was $56K /year but the Army paid all but one semester and he got a $1,200 monthly stipend. He left college with two degrees and zero debt. He had no job worries after graduation because he had a four-year commitment. He's now a Captain in Military Intelligence in South Korea for the next two months. It's not an easy road, but it's an option.

 

[Charles13]

I read that 57% of Gen-Z'ers want to be Influencers..so there goes those kids from the job market.

A 5 year Ivy League diploma will train them well!

 

[gggGary]

 

[Grimly]

A 5 year Ivy League diploma will train them well!

It's been pretty good at churning out assholes with opinions, so far.

 

[jetmechmarty]

I'll add another avenue to a lifelong career.... the military.

It launched me onto a 40 year long career… so far.

 

[Sky King]

In time AI and robotics will have taken even the skilled blue collar jobs away. If you watched Star Trek that level of technology in that story line allowed the people on earth to be free to pursue things they found meaningful and allowed humanity to reach for the stars. I believe in time what the real future holds is a multitude of people starving in the streets and roving bands of thugs preying on whoever they can. A small wealthy class will live in their fortified kingdoms. Not a bright future but one I see as a distinct possibility given our current reality.