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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;wxcoin, post: 3950361, member: 74624&quot;]I tend to agree with younger people have to learn more today than I did to make a good living.&nbsp; Being born in 1955 put me towards the end of the baby boomer era.&nbsp; I was fortunate to get a job in my career field (meteorology) after grad school.&nbsp; Even at that time, to get a job in that field (excluding those people on TV, many who claimed to be meteorologists but weren&#039;t), ones odds increased greatly with an advanced degree.&nbsp; Over the past few decades universities were cranking out many more degreed meteorologists than the market needed.&nbsp; My guess is that over half of my undergraduate classmates had to find a job in a different field.&nbsp; Today I&#039;d guess the numbers are 1&nbsp; in 10, if lucky.</p><p><br /></p><p>Our education system needs to change to reflect today&#039;s workforce.&nbsp; College degrees are not the guarantee to a successful career.&nbsp; Student loan programs should never have gotten so bastardized.&nbsp; More emphasis should be on shorter length and less costly vocational programs; especially today when retraining several times over ones career is a must.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m fortunate to have worked mainly at universities with retirement pensions.&nbsp; Today, many universities are doing away with their pension plans for younger workers and reducing retirement benefits like my generation has enjoyed.&nbsp; I feel fortunate to have a nice pension so I can afford to spend money on various hobbies.&nbsp; I wonder if future generations will have the resources to splurge on coins or other pursuits.</p><p><br /></p><p>I decided to retire early for a number of reasons; full pension, full medical, but also to provide salary savings so the university could hire several young people starting their careers.&nbsp; I was fortunate to work with some very talented young people who needed some old so and so like me to step down so they could get a job.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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