Highly experienced. No usable skills.

[weremonkey]

I've spent 30 years at a career that is no longer necessary. I desperately need an entirely new skill set.
Print is dead. Advertising is only for Account Executives with MBA's. Large publications are all produced in China now, even if the parent publishing company is here in the US. Most potential clients really do not see the difference between

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[iheartmytho]

Sadly, many once viable, middle-class professions are going the way of the dodo. It's terrible and I can see how it's very frustrating to dedicate a life to such things, only for it to screw you over in middle age.

The only photographers I know that seem to make a decent living, are the ones doing non-stop weddings. But even then, that's soul sucking and you never have a weekend again.