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[s10czar]

I want to add my 2 cents...

I think you're on the right track. Look, the US job market is seriously screwed up. Do something else.

Right now I'm in an 8-5 in financial services in California. I'm 40 years old. And all I can think about is how to get out of this place and start living my life.

Do it man. Go for it. Just don't think that there's some great career waiting for you back in states on the back-end. The US is finished. There's no growth left. We're all debt-serf's.

What you want to be is mobile, agile. Develope an in-demand skill that can generate income anywhere in the world. ESL is a great start. I'll be taking my CELTA in Vietnam next month. Screw this place.

[fladude]

You are exactly right. We've become a nation of debt serfs in a country that's basically failing. We don't make anything anymore, and if anyone tries to open a factory here the damn lawyers and environmentalists shut them down. And of course our government turns a blind eye to any labor or environmental issues in Mexico or China (where we force factories to relocate to by making it too expensive to operate in this country). Until this country goes totally broke and realizes that YES it must actually produce things besides artificial debt/ financial services then it will just continue to get worse. We keep plowing under our fields and forests to build cheap strip malls so that the banks can make a "profit" by lending money to the construction industry. We treat our school students like serfs and line them up for student loans. Even if you look at the automobile industry, the real reason it was bailed out was so that banks can keep making auto loans. And don't expect a dose of reality anytime soon, the government and the wealthy elite are doing everything they can to resurrect the old system, eventually the money will run out, but its a decade away.