Mangling Meaning, # 11

Wise words, but a barely intelligible sentence from Mark Beatson, chief economist at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development: 

Link: The Telegraph, '10 well paid jobs of the future'

The low-level punctuation can't necessarily be blamed on the speaker, though it still should have been corrected for publication; but the main winces are due to Mr Beatson's random shifting perspectives: what use are your good education and learning habits to your child's derailed career?

I also blenched at re-skill, but the OED advises that it's been around since at least 1937 (which doesn't make it any more attractive!), originally without a hyphen. It's not in Merriam-Webster at all, even though OED's earlier examples suggest it was coined in the USA.* 

* From the Chicago Tribune (1937); and in G. M. J. Veldkamp (in Western European Labor and the American Corporation, ed. A. Kamin (1970), vi. 437).