Reply #57: Lost my job of 20 years on 6/30/2007 thanks directly to the Bush administration

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One of Cheney's flunkies saw to it that my employer's federal funding was eliminated. I have had a few 5-month temp jobs since then. Almost had a job at the end of 2008, but they instituted a hiring freeze before they could hire me. I get to go back to my temp job this summer, which was physically demanding for even the newly-graduated kid I worked with. I am pushing 49.

I have put in hundreds of applications, too--all over, including one in the Aleutians. Many of them require answering 3-8 essay questions describing every damn thing you have ever done in your life--in great detail. In most cases, they are just different enough that you cannot cut and paste from previous applications. If I have to answer one more damn essay question, I swear I am going to slit my fucking wrists. Don't even get me started on my application/interviewing experiences...