Kent was a very ordinary Lehrmar People, a native born on the island, not some immigrant.
The trading company he had been working for recently went bankrupt—well, it could not really be called bankrupt, it just had not opened its doors for business.
The boss of the company, who had already returned to his home country, had also stated that the exact time for reopening would depend on whether the situation in Lehrmar had a chance to ease up, or wait until after the war ended.
Just like that, Kent lost his job.
Among the Lehrmar Islands, people's traditional jobs in the past were always fishing. Only a few large islands could grow a small amount of crops, so for the past Lehrmar, fishing was almost an instinctive way for people to survive.
However, with the development of the times, social progress, and integration with the world, young people, including the older generation, had already made contact with the entire world.
Fishing was no longer the only craft that allowed people to survive. People learned how to work and learned how to do many more things.
This also led to the younger generation like Kent basically not proactively relying on fishing to make a living, nor were they willing to go fishing.
After all, soaking on the sea all day long not only came with huge risks, but it also did not guarantee that they would make money.
How could it compare to sitting in an office all day, casually doing some simple work, and getting paid on time every month?
The young people's resistance to traditional labor made them lose the skill of fishing.
Even if some people wanted to go out to sea now, they either went out on someone else's boat doing dirty and exhausting work, and