tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21014195.post3949846740681654974..comments2009-06-30T19:22:46.063-07:00BarbaraCAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15697477970050469367noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21014195.post-15582815610110336602009-06-30T19:10:13.486-07:002009-06-30T19:10:13.486-07:00I&#39;m sorry it&#39;s so rough.<br />I work for a non-profit looking at big cut-backs - some staff cuts and no increases. I have to lay someone off tomorrow...Magpiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15460136246441367993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21014195.post-42445015005102128852009-06-27T20:31:30.849-07:002009-06-27T20:31:30.849-07:00I have a contract job at a souless corporation. I hate it. I took it because I could see that my husband&#39;s company was floundering, about to go under and he was being optimistic. They sure enough did back in January and we are glad of my job and its ability to pay bills. Lately I&#39;ve been threatened with a permajob. It upsets me. I am holding on for a hero. That would be my optimist husband getting a good one and me just going along for the ride. I am earning a good ride right now. <br /><br />Barbara - I am so sorry all that happened to y&#39;all on the same day. Really you don&#39;t deserve it. REALLY. You two will find gigs and just keep your eyes open for more gigs and your perspective will have shifted yet again. Your kids probably won&#39;t even remember your running and flapping phase. My kid is acting pretty oblivious - just pleased that she has her dad with her fultime this summer.Saranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21014195.post-11380201042725223202009-06-27T07:59:30.919-07:002009-06-27T07:59:30.919-07:00Oh, Barbara. I&#39;m so sorry. Such a scary climate out there. I really hope that the perfect job(s) will fall into your lap soon--your husband&#39;s too.<br /><br />Because of the budget crisis in CA, the creative writing dept at UCR can&#39;t bring back adjunct lecturers next year; that was my main source of income, so I&#39;ve been scrambling to patch together other work. With a baby coming (and a teenage daughter with expensive taste still at home) it&#39;s scary to feel so financially uncertain. Hopefully things will improve soon for all of us...<br /><br />xoxo<br />gaylegaylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03745788005478202736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21014195.post-15615927052397261132009-06-27T04:32:56.735-07:002009-06-27T04:32:56.735-07:00trying to keep the death grip on my few clients, as well. thinking I need to narrow my focus with the freelancing, and really work out what my specialization is... and am putting together the business plan for the mobile pizza thing. Envisioning a private financial backer for the startup. Chris now on week 11 with no pay and I only worked 2 billable hours in the last 2 weeks...but do have a couple of bigger projects coming up. Much hand flapping around here, too. Processing the next level of bad news that arrives... one item at a time and telling myself this too shall pass or some such crap.Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02889737746282355235noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21014195.post-40497175915279854922009-06-27T04:23:03.633-07:002009-06-27T04:23:03.633-07:00Oh, dear. That stinks. I hope something opens up for both of you soon.<br /><br />I&#39;ve had the same FT job for over 10 years. I&#39;m an &quot;executive assistant&quot; (secretary). I&#39;m really putting my English degree to work. I just asked to reduce my hours to 32/weeks last week and heard crickets. I feel kind of... ungrateful... I mean, it&#39;s hard times, right? I should be grateful I have a job. But I&#39;m overburdened and sad. <br /><br />That said, I do hope you&#39;re a little more burdened in the employment department soon. I know! Come to VT -- we could job share!Sweet Familiarhttp://sweetfamiliar.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21014195.post-31008144313846899692009-06-26T16:32:56.870-07:002009-06-26T16:32:56.870-07:00Yikes. Sorry to hear about the flapping. Scary times. :(<br /><br />My husband is a state employee and so fairly secure. Freelancing right now pretty much sucks (as you know). I am hanging on to my remaining clients with a deathgrip. I hope they don&#39;t mind.<br /><br />Hang in there seems an inadequate sentiment, but right now there&#39;s not much else to say....Mirhttp://wouldashoulda.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21014195.post-45050279189100343092009-06-26T14:23:56.787-07:002009-06-26T14:23:56.787-07:00oh dammit. Surely this means that one of you is going to run into an old friend who knows about a job that&#39;s open that happens to fit you perfectly. Right? I hope so. <br /><br />I am a state employee at a university. It&#39;s what used to be called secretarial work, an untaxing job I took when my youngest was 1 y.o. It&#39;s alternately satisfying and boring. The health ins. benefits are like gold and I will never quit. Meanwhile my husband has been &#39;underemployed&#39; shall we say, for the past three years. We&#39;re five months behind on our mortgage. Although they recently gave us a modification and I sent a payment. Our last preschool tuition payment is next week -- which is good.<br /><br />Sorry for the ramble. It&#39;s always on my mind.Nimblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16426446791363667887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21014195.post-36895681319733669192009-06-26T13:41:00.287-07:002009-06-26T13:41:00.287-07:00My job is fine, for now, but I hate it. But at least I have it. So sorry about yours. Scary timesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com