Two economic reflections:

1) You really can't make any plans, nowadays, because of the question marks hanging over so many job sectors, and because you don't know whether prepping for any given job sector will be worth it. With a lot of potential directions, you could be left with all this time and money sunk and not even just no pay-off, but even heavy debt, to the point where you're worse off for even trying. 

The uncertainty is immobilizing.

2) The other week, my one friend from the South who likes cults was saying that her much-younger sibling was thinking of trying to move to a big city, but rents are cost-prohibitive, and so they're frustrated, but they're just staying at home and living with their parents for the time being, since it's not even worth the money to move out on their own in the small town where they're from.

"I think we were the last generation where you could just go and move to a big city without having a job nailed down," she was like.