Aren't professional mourners still a thing in China or something?
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Now, imagine being, let's say 50 years old, and losing your career. You previous job that you have been doing for 20 years is gone. And soon your home and possessions are too.
Do you have time to go back to school to learn a new skill and then start from the bottom again? And by the time you are done retraining, will anybody hire a 50 to 55 year old rookie when they can get a younger person for less money instead?
It's easy to say, "Just move and do something else" when you are 20. But the older you get it becomes very difficult to nearly impossible for a large number of people to do so. Not everyone can be retrained and there are few low skills jobs these days.
Hi, that's me now that everyone has access to a video editor. Even though most of them don't understand how to use it properly. They don't think they need people with actual editing skills anymore. I'm 46. The last job I had involved checking designs for quality control issues at a company where mostly businesses ordered a personalized product with their own art on it. It paid nothing. I'm kind of fucked, especially since I'll now have a gap in my resume because I had to leave to put my daughter through online school. If she stays in online school until she graduates, I'll be "out of work" for five years. At that point, no one is going to be a video editor anymore. I can't go back to school when I'm 51!
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Why is ninja, and only ninja, askew?
Maybe because we "think" there are no more ninjas, but we can't confirm?
I don't know about the others, but runemaster sounds fascinating.
You could still make runes as a hobby I guess. Sell em on Etsy and call yourself a modern Runemaster
You can still be a kind of garden hermit if you get certain jobs in science and ecology.
If only I could be a Useful Man...
RIP lighthouse keeper
Damn, at least my job as a zombie hunter isn't in any danger yet.
Wait until Trump is President again