Companies like LearnUp have partnered with big box employers to develop curricula that allow someone with an undifferentiated or out-of-date degree, to learn the relevant skills necessary for a job, and to signal intent in a crowded marketplace.
This leads me to the other advantage of bonds over bond funds: you can pick the maturity date and know with a high degree of certainty when you are going to get your money back.
We have to date all grown up seeing and reading newspapers to some degree and easily recognize the common structures of headlines, photos, sections, and even advertisements.