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Perhaps the fact that despite the most intense job hunting I have ever done in my entire life, I earned 3.3% -that's not a typo- 3.3% of the earned income I made the year Bush took office colors my perception of just how dandy things are in the goooood old land of jobs-are-our-#1-export USofA.

[grannie9]

I hear ya Nully. My son's an Electical Engineer, with a few patents under his belt too, and was making big bucks.. and now it's to the point that it's more worthwhile for him be a house husband and do his DJ and photo work from home. It costs a lot of money to have the kids taken care of if you both work.

In his field, if you're out of work too long, everything passes you by, and you have so much to catch up with, so it ain't easy. Schooling again, hardly easy in his case?

The jobs aren't out there, or the money. Luckily his wife is an Electrical Engineer too, and has held on to her good paying job. Maybe just because she's a woman?

Pretty soon we'll all be taxed to death and living off the government. It's starting to seem like what both parties want, and certainly the world..

I'm at a loss. I really am.. Things are not looking good, and you just can't keep those blinders on and hope for the best. At some certain point you have to pay the fiddler.

Just 2 cents worth from a worried woman.
BWDIK?