- I start work on Monday, yet it brings me no mental relief. - I've had 2...
- I start work on Monday, yet it brings me no mental relief.
- I've had 2 employment gaps in the last 12 months, so I was already doing belt tightening, cutting costs in the household.
- The wife has started her job search.
- I'm psychologically prepared for the possibility that I'll need to do a national job search, i.e. move, should the DMV's economy slip into depression.
Self-replies
- Cutting 24% of US GDP spending will turn the US into Venezuela, a recession with no equal- via such tricks as halting payments across the board, in the federal gov't but also the Army now(!)
- The administration implies they will increase IT work, but it also sounds like they actually mean a team of a half dozen loyalist teenagers.
- My next employer's stock is down 1/3 on account of the uncertainty about what it all means.
- There is no way that there is any city, county, government, private company that has no exposure to 1/4 of the GDP suddenly stopping or flowing in some other direction.