[momtothree]

It is very easy for someone (with a job) to tell someone else how easy it is to find one. Well, it isn’t. My brother was unemployed for about 8 months. You are right.. resume after resume. Most didn’t get an interview and the few that did... the people were lined up out the door. Fortunately, his wife had a job (although it was decreased from 40 hours to 32). Yes, I did tell them that if they needed help... I could decorate the basement into an apartment. I also watched their child when both were gone. What’s the saying? ... when someone else loses a job it is a recession, when I lose a job, it’s a depression. Prayers for your neighbor and her brother. They sound like good people.

[dog breath]

My previous job they threw us all out in the street without warning. I am getting too old in my fifties to find crap jobs as easily to get by. Nobody would talk to me or even respond to my applications, the only way I found more work was by talking to people at a competitors who I had known in the past. It is very tough out there! My son does live on 10.00 an hour it is possible, his efficiency apartment is so very tiny, but I am proud of him for wanting to be independent. My area of the country is so depressed that housing is fairly cheap. I am not sure how someone can move out without a great job out East.