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For any remaining typewriter repairmen out there willing to retrain, my office is in dire need of good IT and copier repairmen. No matter how complex or evolved, laws, like machines, will need smart people to fix them when things go wrong.

Luke

This reminded me of working on a project several years ago with a guy who had been the head of IT at a now defunct local paper. Even though he was nominally an IT guy with an initially impressive resume, he had been looking for a job for years and we soon figured out why - he was a dinosaur. His skillset was completely obsolete but he clung to it because he worked hard acquiring it, it was complicated (and therefore impressive to others) and it was what he knew. He suggested his obsolete technologies of choice for every problem over cheaper, easier solutions that he didn't have an expertise in. After working his way up the ladder he had adapted to an organization instead of to a function. Once the organization went away his skills no longer had the same value. Now he was being beat out for jobs by kids half his age with no degrees, much less work experience, but who could get the job done because they had no investment in the past.

I'm going to go relearn how to play video games now. Just in case.

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