>I think the marketplace is always changing, and the years of lifetime employment with a company are long gone. You have to keep your skills up to date in order to compete. I understand that, and it doesn't bother me. I think it's a reasonable price to pay for not having the government run business.
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>However, what kind of skills do we acquire in order to work?

In the company I worked for the Data Entry is done in India. Also I developed an electronic data entry process (some registries gave us electronic files in different formats). While working on BR for the project I spoke with the person who did most of DE in house. She told me, that Data Entry job gives her 3/4 of her wages and she has 3 kids...
Well, the company profit is always more important, than somebody's personal circumstances... :(