Re-Training Quotes

At Lackland Air Force Base, they make an effort to retrain military dogs that suffer from PTSD. It's a lengthy, long process. The treatment is much the same as it would be for people, but it's a difficult road back.

Eventually I lost the idea that I could have a career. I thought I was too old.

I think educational systems have to be more nimble, have to be more adapted to today's realities where students can go in different directions and professionalize even faster. Constant retraining and reskilling and upskilling, whatever you want to call it, of the workforce.

It's very, very difficult to reinvent yourself when you're 40 or 50, whether you are a taxi driver who now needs to become a web designer, or anything else. It just becomes more difficult and more scary.

We have to become a learning society, committed to quality education from early childhood right through to re-training in later life.

And it was a huge emotional thing to leave the law and become unemployed - to be a student again.

The world is changing, and I believe that, if I want to stay employed as a programmer, I'm going to have to change with it.

It's very brave going from a position of authority to one where you are an apprentice.

I talked to a lot of people that switched careers. Not necessarily to acting, but switched jobs. The 'becoming a student again' is the thing that always kept coming up.