[redbaiter]

The market was sending him a signal that his training skills were more highly prized than his data-processing skills. It is sad that he did not listen. He could have been well on his way to a rewarding and interesting career.

[Pukin Dog]

Oh what a GREAT POINT!!!

I wonder if he might have ever considered using his experience to train others?

No, I guess it's much easier to just blame the world and check out.

[Lessismore]

The market was sending him a signal that his training skills were more highly prized than his data-processing skills. It is sad that he did not listen. He could have been well on his way to a rewarding and interesting career.

This is unlikely to be true. In a case that I'm familiar with, the displaced staff were asked to train the Indian replacements in the details of how specific software worked. This is going over specific libraries, runbooks, file structures, source code structure, algorithms, etc. The subject matter is peculiar to the firm's internal cost allocation methodology, not of a general interest, and the technology being used is no longer marketable. Only one of the group has succeeded in getting a new job after about 8 months.