Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by jpao79 2937 days ago
I found this PBS Newshour report that was inspiring:

Job training and community college put coal miners on a new path https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/job-training-community-col...

The question is, is it to optimistic? As someone who has never been to the region first hand, I'd be curious if it is too idealized.

1 comments

Warning: this one will pull your heartstrings and is pretty slickly produced, but it's also not inaccurate.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bVkCDZ4RUIg#

It's a difficult problem, people being who they are. Certainly, there's less public education in the area, but people are difficult to move to new things anyway.

For all the "Well, they should just change" opinions, I try and ask myself what I'd do if (constructed hypothetical) tomorrow it turned out that running computers caused cancer.

Honestly, the reason I'm here instead of living a different life was my grandfather lying his way into the Navy at 17 during WWII, taking advantage of the GI Bill, and getting through graduate school.

Sans that, I'd have been born up in the hills of east Tennessee, and probably never have seen a computer as a child.