1.   And they call the shots, as the younger worker with lower salary demands becomes less prevalent, and finely honed technical skills become essential to employers.

2.   Almost overnight, those skills have become essential to policing in this hamlet in the Tennessee hills, midway between Nashville and Chattanooga.

3.   But that skill is becoming less important every year.

4.   Equally important, upgrading skills is becoming the rule, not the exception, for workers in the middle.

5.   His verbal skills can become a liability, however, when he crosses the line into long-windedness and bombast.

6.   In real life, his skills became most apparent in the Army.

7.   In the new economy, specialized vocational skills soon become obsolete.

8.   Job skills become less marketable.

9.   Maybe your skills are becoming obsolete.

10.   Older workers tend to be devalued because their skills may have become obsolete, Carew said.