[killjoywashere]

17% strikes me as not bad. Not great, but not awful. People who take jobs that are at eminent risk of automation probably weren't exceptionally diligent in school the first time around. Add in the burdens of adulthood (parenting, bills, etc) and the odds of staying in a retraining program seem bleak.

Does anyone have a better success rate?

[Waterluvian]

17% sounds good to me. I did co-op at Elections Ontario and the place is just chock full of barely employable people who resist change to the status quo.

[jgmjgm]

You poor bastard. I worked for the federal government too.

I remember being told that working for the government for more than a few years would make me unemployable in the private sector. The idea was one's work ethic would be irremediably damaged. I thought that was foolish at the start of my time there, but a year later I had a new respect for the heuristic.

[HSO]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20419574

[HSO]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20419574