January 4, 2010

It's about 8:20 in the a.m. Not early by most peoples standards but when you haven't had a reason to get up at any particular hour 8:20 can be prime sleeping time. At least my husband thinks so since he is still up in bed. But I am pretty confident in saying that he would gladly get up at 4:00 a.m. if he had a job to go to. This 'recession' is really doing a number on us. We are nearly at the end of our resources and there doesn't appear to be a light at the end of that proverbial tunnel. This has been going on since August. My husband is a Construction Superintendent and a very good one. I honestly thought that he would not have any problem getting another job. I guess I did not realize at the time just how bad things were. I kept hearing that we should have enough resources to get us through six months. Well, it's getting close to six months and there hasn't been so much as a nibble. I take that back. There actually was a 'nibble'. One company called to tell my husband that they were discussing his 'salary' when the job they had lined up fell through. So even though they were going to hire him they can't because they no longer have the work. I don't understand why they would even bother to tell him this. I mean why would you tell a man who is desperate for work that you were going to hire him, were discussing his salary, but your not going hire him now because you no longer need him? Wouldn't it have just been better to say 'We're not hiring at the moment'? I don't know. I'm praying that something will change for the better.