What would you do??

[GeoFisher]

Guys, you're NOT a kidding.......I've done the same line of work for 25 years, and 18 of them for a LARGE firm in Louisville. If Obama gets his way and passes some of his reforms, the company I work for may be in trouble, and I really don't want to look for work.

I've looked in the past, and the stuff around here is not that good, and a LOT has already been outsourced.......I've ALWAYS put myself into a position of being important, and being 1 of the last to go if layoffs, etc, etc happened, but DISMANTLING of the industry is something I hadn't thought of.

I will be competing with LOTS of young SNOTS willing to work for 1/4 what I make. Or worse......Offshore contractors.........HUGE 10,000 man firms willing to work for 1/8 what I make.....

SCARY.......Funny thing though........I have GUBMENT agencies calling all the time......Maybe I might have to become one of those gubment employeees I so dispise ......

Oh well........I'm still employeed......for NOW.

Later,

Geo

[apb]

Weird, thought I responded to this one last night Believe I would check with friends in my industry first to try and least get something temporary to hold me over. Worse came to worse, whatever job I could get locally to pay the bills or at least keep the creditors at bay.

Andrew

[pontooner]

Had a friend that tried the yard work and landscaping thing last year after he lost his job in March and it didn't work out to well with all the dry weather. He had plenty of yards lined up but people were going weeks without needing any yard work done and he had already told people when he was trying to get their yard that if it didn't need mowing that week he was fine with it so nothing he could really say or do after that.

He wound up selling all his mowing stuff last fall and I think he said he made a little money after everything was accounted for.

Of course he is kicking himself now because this year he could have made some decent money but thats mother nature for ya.

Oh yeah the gas prices last year didn't help things either.