[ared38]

But how? If it takes 4 months to train on a new CNC machine or 8 to learn the latest web design tools, how do we make people more adaptable?

There are certainly some jobs that are currently over trained, as evidenced by nurse practitioners taking over some common general practitioner roles. But I'm not convinced that's the situation in manufacturing.

[cle]

I honestly don't know. I'm mainly concerned that it's not part of the conversation--the national conversation currently revolves around getting back lost jobs, or preventing jobs from being lost, instead of adapting to change.

Jobs will be lost, industries will die, money will shift--it's inevitable. How can we adapt? It's something I don't have a good answer for, but that I'm confident can be solved if we actually try.