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by darpa_escapee 3385 days ago
Vocational training is a wash if industries change to meet market demands, which they always are. Your IBM mainframe certificate doesn't mean shit in 2017, neither does the 6 week course you took on Microsoft Access if the job doesn't call for it.

Same thing applies to bootcamps. In 2-4 years, the frameworks and concepts you've learned to implement web apps will have changed. In ten, it will be an entirely different game.
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synicalx 3384 days ago
> Your IBM mainframe certificate doesn't mean shit in 2017

Ah see you say that, but I know a guy who got pulled out of retirement for about $1500 per day by a bank who needed their archaic mainframe fixed.

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curiouscat321 3385 days ago
This is the biggest issue that rural America is facing right now. There's an incredibly large voting bloc of people that had vocational training in mining, manufacturing, etc, etc. Their training is now worthless and nobody has a great plan to get them either a real education or more useful vocational training.
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monkmartinez 3384 days ago
Real education? Like English literature, or Art History, or Communications, or Dance, or Latin?

By real education do you mean STEM, medical or Law? Or something else?

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