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I love the idea that people are looking at education as a lifelong mission rather than a single completable task, I just wish it was for a less stressful reason. I have a BA and have been on unemployment since I was downsized from 8 hours a day to 8 hours a week in my photo retail job last year. I'm looking to go back to school but I'd like to study sustainable issues and ways of creating or integrating these new ways of looking at our resources in current industries like construction, design and research and I am finding it very hard to find examples of jobs or classes in these new fields. How does one learn skills and get job training for a field that is only now coming into reality in an employment sense? My bliss is in the outdoors, teaching, photography and studying. I love design and organizational systems and I would truly love to help our country usher itself firmly into a new sustainable era - but how? These are big questions that only I can answer, but I think we can do better to make these new emerging jobs more visible and work on what training would be necessary to participate! Thanks for a great story!!

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