Reply #31: I'm unemployed and my husband is underemployed

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after a time of unemployment. We are hanging on by a very thin thread thanks to the fact that I've always been very fiscally conservative. Health care affordability is what is going to do us in. If we can get some help from the stimulus bill, we might be able to ride it out.

The local utility company advertised it was hiring 125 meter readers and construction helpers. It received more than 4,000 applications within about a week and shut the application process. I look at those numbers and try not to get too discouraged that I'm not receiving any responses when applying for something that I think I'm perfectly qualified for.