ON THE BREADLINE: BRYAN CHRISTIAN
Thursday, May 14th, 2009 Posted in ON THE BREADLINE |Christian, of Brooklyn, was a marketing director at HarperCollins, the book publisher. He was laid off in February. How do you cope with getting up every morning? What motivates you? Well, the thing that I miss the most is having a routine, ...
ON THE BREADLINE: THOMAS ELLIOTT
Tuesday, May 12th, 2009 Posted in ON THE BREADLINE |Elliott was the fleet and safety manager for a major transportation company in San Diego when he was laid off without warning last July. Two months later, as he was about to begin a (lower-paying) job at another company, he ...
ON THE BREADLINE: CLAY FROM HOUSTON
Tuesday, May 5th, 2009 Posted in ON THE BREADLINE |Clay, a former network administrator for a credit-card processing company in Houston, Texas, was laid off last July. Though he writes openly about his plight on his blog, Way Past Broke, he has asked that we not use his full ...
ON THE BREADLINE: BECKY BOSSHART
Monday, May 4th, 2009 Posted in ON THE BREADLINE |Bosshart, of Las Vegas, was an online reporter for the Las Vegas Sun. She was laid off in April, just a week before the paper won a Pulitzer Prize for its investigative reporting. How do you cope with getting up every ...
ON THE BREADLINE: KATHY Y. WILSON
Wednesday, April 29th, 2009 Posted in ON THE BREADLINE |Wilson was a senior editor at Cincinnati magazine until she got the ax on March 6. How do you cope with getting up every morning? What motivates you? I don’t cope with getting up every morning, which is why I sleep ’til ...
ON THE BREADLINE: TONY SABERTON
Monday, April 27th, 2009 Posted in ON THE BREADLINE |Saberton, of Louisville, Kentucky, was a corporate auditor for major cell-phone retailer. He was laid off on February 1st of this year and currently writes a blog, Homeless But Happy, that is by turns engaging, funny, and heatbreaking. How do you ...
ON THE BREADLINE: ANGELA KAO
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009 Posted in ON THE BREADLINE |Kao, of Brooklyn, worked as an editor for an independent press, specializing in academic history books. She was laid off at the beginning of April. How do you cope with getting up every morning? What motivates you? During the first week, I ...
ON THE BREADLINE: STEPHANIE SENERCHIA
Thursday, April 16th, 2009 Posted in ON THE BREADLINE |Senerchia, of Providence, Rhode Island, worked for nearly a decade in health-care administration and management before taking the reins of a “medi-spa” that closed two years ago. She has not since found a new job. “I never thought it would ...
ON THE BREADLINE: DAVID SCOTT DRANE
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009 Posted in ON THE BREADLINE |Drane, of Evanston, Illinois, was a staff architect at a smallish residential firm. “I and three others were part of the first wave of layoffs back in November,” he says. “It was around the same time the principals were soliciting ...
ON THE BREADLINE: RACHEL SUGAR
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009 Posted in ON THE BREADLINE |You don’t need to have held down a job for years to feel the sting of unemployment. Sugar, of Brooklyn, graduated from college last year and promptly landed a position as an editorial assistant at an online magazine—only to get ...
