Dotsie,
I'm sorry about your son being laid off! He is lucky, he has you for a mother!

My son is caught up in academia and applying for doctorate programs. The money is tight there too but he has excellent credentials to help him. We will muddle through and have not heard from the colleges he applied to.

Since school funding is way down, if he is not accepted with a package deal, he will take a year off after he recieves this degree this year and try to find work to save money.

I hope it does not come to that. There are student loans but I don't want my child rolling in debt.

My son who is a Pastor resigned his position only very recently. He has a business that is his own, it is in recycling, which I feel with stay afloast but he is in the job market to do what is close to his heart, which is, helping people. (He has a psyche degree.)

Our children may be the ones who suffer as they compete for jobs with former CEOs!! Quite the problem, I think.

I read that it may stay this way until 2011!

Still, if you choose to travel, now is the time with gas as it is now. Also, any job to do with driving should be easy enough to keep with gas prices SO, So low!

Best of luck to everyone. It seems it's hitting everyone, this financial problem in the country, doesn't it?

Dancer