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(32,324 posts)Husband lose his job when he got sick way back in 2005, right now, the entire department that he worked for is gone. The state of California has to make disastrous cutbacks to social programs. And yesterday, another round of cuts, worth One Billion Dollars, has been bled out of the state, once again. Teachers and students, the headlines screamed, will be affected the most.
His old job, which had required him to have a Master's degree - it involved helping poor people find work.
Well, since I guess there aren't any jobs, having that particular department survive would be a fool's mission.
We are doing okay only because we have our own business, and we have Chinese customers who support it. I still find the experience that we are surviving in part because of Chinese people living in China to be surreal.