Well here it is Monday morning (well it’s almost noon while I am writing this). The Titans won yesterday so that is real good news.

Anyways I did 2 interviews last week and one did call back this morning, it is for a Temp. Service which is ok they offer better benefits then most construction companies do, the job is re-working some security cameras and card readers at a local prison. It should last till March of 2009; this is really good news as it will at least keep the bill collectors happy for a little while. The back ground check will take around 3 days so till then we will just juggle the bills around.

Now I have been trying to figure out why this happened and what can I do to prevent this job issue for re-occurring. I have weighted some of my options and none seem to bright.

The reason I was laid off was due to money, in other words the company I was working for seemed to think they were paying too much for my years of experience. After all they can hire workers with a lot less experience do a half ass job and still make a profit. So what can I do to help my situation?

1. I could lower my rate of pay; not really an option as I do have bills to pay its not like we live some extravagant life style just a mortgage, car payment, utilities, and food (an occasional DVD now and then).
2. We can cut back on things like phone, cable TV, and electric; of course we did all that already only to have the rates go up once we did cut back. (so that did not work so well)  

No I think what I need to do to preserve my life style is find a way to even the playing field. The illegal immigrants seems to be the biggest problem, as long as they keep flooding our country and filling our jobs with sub-standard wage earnings, I as an American will never be able to live a middle class life style.

So I guess I should write my congress man and see what plains they have to help out of course I been doing that for over a year now and nothing really seemed to help but at least my voice is out there.   

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