Well, as long as you guys keep going to the movies I’ll be fine 
By the way, don’t forget to go watch or rent or buy the dvds this year for marley and me, wolverine, Dragon Ball Z, The Day the Earth stood still, taken, street fighter, ice age 3 among others :0)
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What is your job? Can you make me famous actress?
What is your job? Can you make me famous actress?
Nah, but I can build some killer apps for you.
i would say go visit your local armed foces recruiter, but is a waiting for that too…
What exactly should we look up at the library?
Anything – I’m in the library business, so the more you go, the less likely I am to lose MY job 
Seriously, though, libraries are booming right now due to people cutting back on things like movies (free at library), internet connections (also free), and books (Barnes and Noble is laying folks off – libraries circulation are way up). Of course, library budgets are also on the chopping block due to local government deficits and lower tax revenues.
**my advice is to be worried. **
My advice is not to worry and work on things you can control. In general, companies will keep their best employees so try to become one of those. If there is no choice, then work to find something else. If you remain optimistic, good things will happen. If you sit around and worry about what others will do to you, it just makes bad situations worse.
I worked in the financial world for years before giving it up and all the stress/worrying now seems ridiculous in hindsight. Worrying about your stocks, worrying about what your boss is going to do, worrying about promotions and why others are being promoted and worrying about the economy are all things that you have no control over serves no purpose at all.
The world will not end if you don’t make a lot of money, you can survive on little if you have to and anyone in America can survive.
I’m always worried, but at the same time, i’m don’t. At home 2008 was a hard year for us on unexpected bills, so my bank account to a beating. Since I work in telecom, we’ve done this already, we had our nasty bad time. My gut completely rotted out once to worry, so it doesn’t hurt too bad.
There were originally 19 in my group in 2000, now 3 do the same work, and we’re the type that would go down with the ship.
Hope you make it through the trimming cycle.I should be good for a while I work for a LARGE d.o.d contractor.Even in lean times the Fed. keeps the money flowing to essential projects.
If you get trimmed BHO has Green jobs and millions of shovel ready stuff coming down the pike.America is going to need people for the business end of those “shovels”.
I’m a government employee. My employer is very short-staffed, so there are no fears of layoffs. In fact, quite the opposite.
This is not the case for all sectors of government. My wife works for the health department and they are at a hiring freeze and may be looking at layoffs.
Of course the reason being the state has decided they can’t afford to pay the bills anymore and haven’t made some payments in over 9 months.
Since the government relies on income from the private sector to exist one will follow the other or the government will simply “Print money” to “Take care of their own”…at which point you better break out the wheelbarrow because that’s what a loaf of bread will cost to buy
~Matt
My company was just bought by Oracle which just laid off about 500 sales people last Friday. Most of us are not in sales, so we hope we are safe. I don’t know of anyone who feels completely secure at their job in any industry these days.
Mostly I started this thread as a way to bond over our worries than expecting any real answers.
I got it but obviously my answer didn’t show that. 
"Wishing now that we hadn’t bought that land 2 years ago… "
I hear you. My office overhead is very low since it’s a part of my house. A couple of years ago I was thinking of buying a building in town and turning it into a “wellness centre” concept with moving my office and renting space to other health professionals. Very glad now that I didn’t.
** I got it but obviously my answer didn’t show that. ;)**
Hehh…I’m a bit distracted…
I’m too old for the military and unfortunately being a great consultant still won’t save me if all consultants are on the chopping blocks. But, I can’t make myself sick worrying about it. I’ve been through the job loss thing 2 times in the last 4 years and almost sent myself to the hospital I was so sick with worry. Not this time, but I’d be foolish not to worry enough to do something about it.
The joys of a crappy economy!
At least you have a 2-income household. Many of us out there who are single, are the sole source of income. If a single person’s job gets cut, then they lose the roof over their head. It’s a tough economy out there.
Yes, in a lot of ways I am very fortunate.
I’m trying to think about if I lose my job, should I switch industries from software marketing to something else? I know healthcare is pretty recession proof but I don’t have the training in what they want the most, nurses and techs. But I’ll still look there.
Other ideas on industries that wouldn’t take as much of a hit as others?
I own my business. Last year I had a staff of 13, today I have 5. I know it is tough when you lose your job, I also know the stress that I go through when I have to cut staff positions.
Unfortunately, owning a small business is no panacea either. Every client is your boss and if they are suffering so are we.
Right now our company is in survival mode. I anticipate a 20-30% pay cut for my remaining staff so that I don’t have to do any more layoffs. I have already cut my own salary to save the talented and dedicated people I hate to let go.
No sleeping well at all…
I hope we are nearing the bottom!
Wishing everyone the best of luck.
Wow. Letting people go must be incredibly stressful. I do not even that! Self employment is difficult. My husband owned a retail business for a couple years and it really hurt our personal finances just to keep it going. I’ll never go through that again.
I worked at six newspapers in five states in a span of 12-and-a-half years before defecting to academia last December. My last three newspapers have done a round of layoffs in the last three months, two of those papers in the last week, one for the first time ever. Looks like I pulled the cord at the right time. And before I leaped I was concerned because I was last hired at that paper and would have been one of the first let go yesterday.
" if I lose my job, should I switch industries "
If it comes to that, there is some good info on this site. Also recommend is the book “What Color is Your Parachute” (or something like that).