"one has marketable skills" - I suppose that means you've learnt to do something useful and are going to be able to earn a living, which is a good idea. But "marketable skills" makes it sound like being livestock.

I hadn't a clue what I was going to do when I went to university. And nothing I learnt there formally has been particularly relevant to anything I have done in the rest of my life (apart from the folk music, which wasn't poart of the curriculum). I think that's how it ought to be.