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Originally posted by lendaddy
Oh and Jim, don't you do surveying? My buddy is an exec here at a big surveying and civil engineering firm and they just did wholesale layoffs today as well.
He says that industry in in a serious hurt up here. Keep in mind this is Michigan and we are much worse off than most right now.
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Yes, I am in the Surveying business. We have watched a steady decline for the last 2 years. I expect the next 3 to be really bad. Beyond that? I have no clue. I have spent the "good times" making it so that I can flip burgers if I have to to get by. Instead of selling and buying a McMansion I payed off my humble home.
I have a plan B but my wife does not like it. I want to sell or rent our house in FLA. I have a second home in NC with a small mortgage. I can find work in a minute there. Possibly open another business there. But, she does not want to leave FLA for lots of good reasons. If pushed financially I might have to put my foot down and do it though.
A few of my employees know this might be an option and they are ready to follow me up there. I hope it does not come down to that.
A few of my clients have already closed up and oved away. So its not looking good here either.