I'm not unemployed...yet. But our company lost the service contract, so I've been burnishing my resume, getting my certifications up to speed, and hoping like @#$% that they'll take me on (it's fairly likely objectively, but considering the alternative, I'm not taking chances. That's also why I haven't been rendering lately..)

The company we contract for cut 6,000 jobs the other week, but that's worldwide, so hopefully I'll still have some printers to fix out there...;)

Unemployment's almost 8%, and that's in a huge Research park. IBM, Northern Telecom, and other big employers around here are either bankrupt or cutting back, so I have a lot of overqualified competition if I don't 'make the cut'.

Not much good news out there.

I wish I'd said that.. The Staircase Wit

anahl nathrak uth vas betude doth yel dyenvey..;)