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Yesterday at the grocery store, I accidentally bumped my cart into a 50-year old looking lady in the checkout line. Rudely, she pushed my cart back into my midsection. A sharp pain ran through my waist as the lady shot a look back at me saying, “How dare you!”

I apologized, then looked down at my cart to survey my purchase. Eggs, steak, salmon, chicken, bread. “Hope it all adds up to $40,” I thought.

An angry voice appeared out of nowhere in my head. “Well, if this stupid baby-boomer in front of me hadn’t screwed up the economy, maybe I’d have the grocery budget to afford some milk!”

I laughed to myself and chalked up my rage to frustrations I share with this years graduating class. On Sunday, the front page of the …

I remember a guy telling me, a few recessions ago, that he was out of work for three months and he never told his wife and kids! I asked him what he did every day. He said that he took the train into the city and “walked around.” He went to every museum twice and saw a great deal of movies, fitting interviews in between.

“Why,” I asked. He told me he was ashamed that he had been fired and didn’t want his wife to worry.

A few recessions ago most of us had some savings and could weather a setback of being out of work for a bit. Some of us even preferred to stay at home  raising a family or holding down a local …

There are a bunch of people out of work right now and more will be joining their ranks as the cutbacks continue. I get calls from people who think I have some magic mojo to help them get a job. I only have one piece of advice that I know works every time.

Visualize that your ship has gone down and you and your family are in a life boat at sea. Think of your personal resources as the food and drink that is stored in that lifeboat. Logic dictates that there is no way of knowing when you will be rescued. The only sane thing to do is conserve your resources to make them last as long as possible. So, follow the metaphor a little more….

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