Re: RANT - Worst of times

Thank you, Cindy.  And thank you for sharing your friend's story.  That is 
horrible.  But I will take your advice and start looking up instead of
down. 
Because all I saw when I was looking down is dirt, mud and sorrow.

-- 
AZ

"Cindy Murray" <c1ndyluhu@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message

> You may not be asking for sympathy, but you have mine.  I have a friend 
> who's a graphic artist.  He has 6 children and his wife is a
stay-at-home 
> (with 6 kids, who could afford day care?).  He's been out of work off
and 
> on for the last couple of years.  He'll get a job and it's going good,
but 
> suddenly the company decides to downsize.  The last time, they
eliminated 
> the whole department, so now there's 20 other artitsts out there
competing 
> for the same jobs.
>
> Fifteen years ago, hubby went through something similar.  He was coaxed 
> into leaving a stable, well-paying job with benefits to manage a
recording 
> studio.  The change would be a good hike in pay, and we felt like we
were 
> living high on the hog (sorry, Horace!).  Everything was going great 
> except for the fact that the owner brought him into the job under false 
> pretenses.  See, he wanted Mark to himself (he was moonlighting 
> elsewhere), but he didn't have the funds to KEEP him exclusive.  He was 
> actually taking out loans to pay Mark's salary! After about 9 months of 
> this, it all blew up in his face and he couldn't pay the salary any
more. 
> So there we were, no job and no prospects.  To make a long story
shorter, 
> hubby wound up getting a job in a different (but somewhat related field)

> which eventually put him in the position to land the job he has now --  
> back in his field of choice.
>
> So hang in there...it WILL get better...and think about looking at
related 
> industries on the periphery of casino/hotel/airline industries. Maybe 
> something will pop up there...Have you thought about the cruise lines? 
Or 
> working internationally?
>
> Cindy
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