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NRaleighLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-26-11 08:12 AM
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3. Me, and many of my friends - here's who we are -
Edited on Mon Sep-26-11 08:13 AM by NRaleighLiberal
mid 50s, some men and some women - some bachelors, some masters, some PhDs - long career in Pharma, in some cases our only jobs for more than 20 years. chemists, biologists, clinical professionals, finance, process improvement skills sprinkled among us. Very good salaries and benefits and work conditions while we were at the big company.... Then - poof! - due to offshoring, oursourcing, pressure on the industry, cost cutting - dozens and dozens of us end up on the outside looking in. No - there are no job programs, and no jobs - we are overqualified, overpaid, too old - you name it. I've been out since end of March and we are just trying to make a go of it until SS/our 401K (now a quickly shrinking IRA kicks in).

And I suspect this scenario is being played out in many, many places. Some of my friends have given up - so no longer being counted. I am still collecting - so at least am a smidgeon of a statistic.
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