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The most important thing that can be done when a person is unemployed is to use that opportunity to find GOD. Prayer and family support, as well as the support of friends is of up most importance. Stop blaming everyone and everything for the period of change that the person is going through. Just be there and use this opportunity to help him/her get closer to our maker. I am a big believer in PRAYER.

Also, this season is going to be different than the rest... spend much more time with friends and family. And, GO TO Church. Forget about all the Cathloic problems in the Boston area. God is God. Forget the problems of man and put your entire and whole trust in him. He'll take care of you. I believe it.

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My husband will be laid off in February. He is already making contacts for future employment. If that doesn't pan out we are all prepsred to move to a less expensive place to live and simplify our lives. Our cars are paid off and all debt will be paid with his settlement pay. We feel we can maintain our lifestyles on about 1/2 of current income in a cheaper area.

We don't want to move, but with 6500 layoffs in his field in Denver, it is something we will seriously consider. It's not the end of the world. It's just another chapter in our lives.

I've been an IT consultant for the past 18 years. I was laid off in March and my unemployment compensation will end on the 28 of Dec.

Yah, the people on this thread will laugh, heartless bastids that they are (cause they haven't lost their jobs yet or are working at a subsistence wage) but I've sent out hundreds of resumes as well and paid for an agency to send out a thousand resumes around the first of Dec. I have excellent references and work the cutting edge of technology.

The problem isn't only no jobs. Businesses aren't even willing to set up interviews. All that and I've had 2 interviews.

SInce 911, the IT industry has lost over 650,000 jobs. 20% fewer airline flights means 20% fewer reservation systems and 20% fewer IT jobs, and this is one industry (and besides the 100,000 computers that went down in the WTC/Pentagon). Those that still exist are being filled by H1B visa holders from overseas because they'll work for significantly less money.

Sure. We can take a burger flipper job. But why should we. It's happened to the IT industry and it'll be coming to an industry near all these nay-sayers. Their solution is to make all of America burger flippers.

What morons.

The solution is to stop giving away America's plum jobs to foreigners who work for next to nothing. American business, American government and American people like those on this thread are what have done me out of my job, not me or mine.

I've resigned myself to giving up my house and the standard of living that we've enjoyed for almost 20 years. I'll probably be pushed into a janitor's job and life will go on. I'm not lazy nor am I stupid. I'll hate my new job because it's going to be far below what I'm qualified for and the only reason that I'm forced to work it is because my company wanted to save a few bucks and sent its computer operation to another state and there are no replacement jobs out there to be had, no matter how bad one wants to work. I love my job - my old one that is.

Godspeed