Considering their lack of economic resources, marketable skills and, often, the ability to speak English, they've done pretty well.
The goal of the school was to provide students with marketable skills for a changing society.
They wouldn't be able to get marketable skills and go on to good jobs.
The wife, left to support the 6.8 kids, has few marketable skills, and nowhere to go to market them.
She never attended high school and has no marketable skills.
My aunt believed that every woman should develop marketable skills, and the more money she was paid for them the better.
And he was too old to learn a new, marketable skill.
Suddenly she had these two kids to support, not a cent in the bank, and no marketable skills.
She'd not only flunked out of college, but she had no marketable skills to her name.
My philosophy: why stay in school when you have a marketable skill?