[Porsche-O-Phile]

No trouble and good on ya'! This last situation with me was similarly a stinker; I've worked some sort of job since I was 14 years old - and that includes all the time in college and graduate school. It sucked to end up out of work - very disappointing, draining and disheartening.

The only other time was in 2002 when it happened to my wife. We were in Portland, OR at the time and she went from being a national accounts manager flying all over the country for FAO Schwartz's parent company to out of work with no prospects just like that. Took her four months to get another job and it was back in southern CA where we'd just moved from a few months prior. Like me, she's always worked (since she was 16) and hadn't really been let go.

I realize that the sample size of two is statistically insignificant, but I do tend to think based on other data that this recession and the post-9/11 recession (2002-2003) were far worse than ones that preceeded them. That might've had something to do with it.

Just glad to be back working now, even if it's not quite as good as what I had before. Decent money, I have health insurance and we've got a roof over our heads. Right now I'm grateful for that. I'll work on improving the situation when the market turns around some more and I can (maybe) look at getting back to someplace a bit more interesting.

Best to you and hopefully you can stay workin' (or else get one of them winning lottery tickets!)