[fellowpatriot]

Is it your age or income? My brother-in-law lost his job before Christmas last year. He was with the company for nine years and was one of their senior people. He is convinced that it was because his income was almost double the income of the lower seniority (and much younger) workers that the company kept. He still hasn't found a full-time job, but is going to school to get his bachelors degree.

Hopefully, the economy will pick up. I wish you the best of luck!

[bandlength]

definitely AGE. i was a contract/temp worker making $11.82 an hour, absolutely NO benefits! in fact, there were other contracts who started after me and were making more doing the same job. THEN, there were the permanent employees who were making about $17 an hour with full and generous benefits who did, for the most part, absolutely NOTHING all day (since they were "real employees" and harder to fire)