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This Has Been A Bad Year
on march 2, 2008 my father and mother were in a serious auto accident. killed my father and severely injured my mother. we were able to get her home june 6,2008. we thought it was going to be a double funeral. she did miss the funeral we had for dad and now is unable to cope with his loss. we are doing all we can. we just was able to take a breather from that and my mother in law became ill to the point we had to admit her to a facility for alzheimers. still copeing with this. she is out of town and the price of gas we can't get to visit as often as we should. this is hard on my wife. my pension was decreased last year and sometimes we don't know where the next meal is coming from or if we'll have one. friends have helped but seems like all are getting in the same boat. my social nude experiences are far and few between now. i miss that the most. a nudist friend of mine did take me along in june. haven't been able to go back since. i value our friendship along with others we have found via the nudist websites i am on. i continue to look for work but to no avail. i'm ready now to leave the area if i have to. this area is depressed for anything since the steel mill decreased to a quarter of what it was. when i started in '73 they employed 14,000. now they are down to 1,100. i know others are struggling too. if i can be of any assistance - let me know. thaks for all your friendship!Posting comments is disabled.
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I think the economic times have turned tough in many areas of the country and I do believe, in many cases, moving to a new town or city does not help. My wife and I moved to Las Vegas, a big town, as she had lined up a job there and I felt certain I could get something, but it did not work out. I had a small non-work related accident and needed to be off work for three months for recouperation time, boy does that throw a wrench into the works! My father always used to say people need to have 3 months pay saved in the bank just for such an emergency but, I never heeded his advice.
Within the past year here, now in Virginia, I have come to believe that most people could benefit from having multiple sources of income (even if they are small). The money has to keep flowing in even when one or more family members can't get up and go out! The only other "helpful" advice I can think of is that the Internet has changed some of the things we used to think of as traditional work, and more people are able to work from home than ever. I'm not sure what the majority of these people are doing, mostly statistical work and creating reports but I think there are a few involved in [cyber-] customer relationship management (CRM) from their homes.
If you search Monster.com or some of the other job banks, it is now possible to select "virtual" or "remote" job listings, or use the words "telecommute" and "telepresence" when searching those listings.
Whatever you do, I wish your family the best for the remaining months of 2008. Oh yeah, I have heard that it is even worthwhile to write to elected officials such as mayors, city councilmen and state level representatives to ask about jobs and present yourself to them. A nicely crated cover letter, resume and "laundry list" of things you COULD do might be handy to them in knowing their constituents and being in touch with the people they serve; remember these people "network" and talk to more businesspeople and developers than you and I ever will - even with the world-wide network of nudists on our side.
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