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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (12620)	3/23/2004 11:07:45 AM
From: Boplicity	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13815

I'm seeing an upturn in the Chicago area, manufacturing metal working CNC operators, designers, builders, and programmers, Motorola is higher, and of course construction. Greg

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (12620)	3/23/2004 11:16:14 AM
From: im a survivor	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13815

<<are there any more jobs where you live? We are seeing a trickle here. >> Actually No, which is alarming since we are in such a high growth area. In fact, I am seeing more and more white collared friends lose their jobs and unable to find anything comparable...folks used to making 6 figures can't even get a job for $30k...most of them anyway...I do have one friend that got laid off a 6 figure job after 22 years of service...got another job in slightly different field for about $40k...but recently his old boss called him and offered him a position with the company he is now with, for the 6 figures he was used to making...other then that one person, most everybody I know that was making big bucks and got laid off, cannot find comparable work or pay...and more are still getting laid off.......

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (12620)	3/23/2004 1:42:16 PM
From: D.B. Cooper	Respond to of 13815

I was watching one of local Seattle stations last night. Their report was that while the unemployment had slightly decreased say from 7% to 6.3%(just pulling the #s out of the air) the number of people that had run out of employment insurance had actually increased. The peoople that could find jobs where being hired at 30% lower wages then the job that they had lost. Go WMART. The NFTA treaty cost a lot of jobs and then the Calf. energy crunch. We are losing the middle class around here. Don