Rapidly advancing technology will make traditional degrees useless in all but a few fields. It is those who keep up learning and acquire new skill sets on their own, both by learning and by doing, who will succeed in the new economy.
Watch this space (or more probably the YWN headlines as I will be gone from here Shushan Peerim :)). I happen to be working on something that will provide both training and work online so I will turn my own prediction into reality. I have not decided whether I will roll out a separate platform for the frum community but I do have it set up that way at present.
Regardless of whether I have a separate section for frum clients and workers, there will be plenty of ways for those who “missed out” on learning something in school to catch up through online instruction. Then, you take tests that qualify you to do various legitimate jobs that we line up in writing, design, programming, marketing and much else, so you get right to work at whatever hours suit you. Most work will be done that way in the future; this already exists for some types of remote work but I am bringing it to a new level with training and a more streamlined process.
ETA Pesach Sheini 5772.
Now, back to hachonos lePeerim – and frankly, this memoir is one bad Peerimshpiel – an exaggeration of what goes on in certain communities that in the end will subject its author to nothing but ridicule.