>>>>You really seem stuck on the thought that everyone who receives government assistance is a lazy moocher. If you don't realize that many, many of the unemployed and underemployed would love to be doing a full time job you are out of touch IMO.
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>>>>I had a contract with Invacare HCS until August 26th. They laid off a young woman who was working the phones at the end of August. A week later, when I stoppped at the drug store to pick up a prescription, there she was at the pharmacy counter. She told me the job was only part time but that it was a start. This young woman could just as easily sat on her butt collecting unemployment and food stamps. Instead she went out and found a job less than a week later even though it was only part time. Now here is someone who is not a lazy moocher....
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>>>Then she had another source of income or that was one hellaciously good paying part time job.
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>>>Marcia, I'm guessing that owning your own company keeps you employed most days - but it's tough out there. I've been unemployed since Oct '09 and, believe me, it wasn't for lack of trying. Unemployment paid for gas, prescriptions and food. My retirement fund paid for everything else. By the way, is it mooching when it's money you've paid into the system?
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>>Hey, Dorris. Long time no see. I'm sorry to hear about your rough patch there. Are you now retired or do you mean you have been living on what was supposed to be retirement funds? Been there, done that. I am grateful to be working now, a six month contract in St. Louis.
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>Oh...YOU got that contract! (grin)
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>Nope, not retired - just stripping out the retirement fund to keep the house paid for, so I'll be working for the next umpty-jillion years to rebuild it - which is ok, 'cuz while I love my husband, and he loves me, we both agree this 'vacation' has gone on WAY too long.

Good luck. Just keep plugging away and something will happen.

Marcia is right (oh how I hate saying that, LOL) -- I made a mistake passing on one job because I thought the salary was too lowball. I wouldn't have had to stay there forever but it would have been a lot better than making nothing. So far, so good here. The X factor is it's only a six month contract, until late January. So many things can happen there due to budgets, the level of open maintenance work, and who knows what else. I can't control those things, only the kind of work I do.