Reply #19: not just our children, either

[northernlights]

those of us whose industries tanked right when we were reaching our peak earning years shouldn't be forced to take on massive debt or spend our retirement savings -- or both -- just to "re-invent" ourselves.

Some of us already have useless BS degrees left from those heady days of the late 60s when hs school advisors encouraged (at least women) to "get a liberal arts degree. you can always learn a career later."

Now we have a useless degree, useless career experience, unwanted skills, we're underqualified and overqualified for everything at the same time. And we don't qualify for any aide for a useful degree, beyond usury loans that will put us in debt until we're 80 or so.

It's just. not. right.