For example, an operations engineer in the coal industry could retrain to be a manufacturing technician in solar and expect about a 10% salary increase.
She's in her fifties, spends her days "wiping old ladies' bottoms" and wants to retrain to be a doctor.
"More than four million workers are either going to get paid more or get their time back to raise their family, go back to school or retrain to get a better job," said Biden.
In the UK, drivers are used to manual transmissions and may be reluctant to learn how to use more automated systems, just as we would be reluctant to retrain to use a different keyboard even if it were more efficient.
Still, it doesn't seem like the employee is off the hook -- he'll undergo retraining "to prevent a recurrence of such an incident".
That is cold comfort to a laid-off engineer in Silicon Valley; retraining to become a surgeon would take another nine years.
And now she's throwing in the towel to retrain as an A-level chemistry teacher.
A blonde and bronze-skinned woman in her early 50s, often to be found in bright clothes and smoking or at least thinking about smoking a cigarette, she had worked in telecommunications for years before retraining to be a conservationist.
One horse is being retrained to become a hunter-jumper in Virginia.
In cases where the left ventricle has prolonged exposure to low pressures in the pulmonary circulation, the left ventricle must be "retrained" to assume a systemic pressure load.
