God has truly blessed you :-) You have a good wife. A job will come soon, so don't ever give up hope!
It re-orders one's ideas of what is important in life. There's poverty and then there's abject poverty, but I haven't reached the abject stage yet. (There was one FReeper who told that he had had to hunt and gather for his food at one time or another.)
I had to make a trip to California a couple of weeks ago for a funeral, and was simply amazed at the mindset of the folks out there.
Thousands of supermarket cashiers making $20 per hour on strike because they refuse to pay 5% or their medical insurance? Everybody in debt up to their ears. Just damn...
I wish them well.