News :How did I get here? - 9/11 was the beginning

If I'm going to tell my story then I might as well explain that my financial problems started several years ago. Right after 9/11 I was laid off work for six months. I worked for a major computer company at the time and they were in the process of selling our software division to a foreign company (in Israel). Well three weeks after 9/11 happened the buyer company decided that they didn't want to bother with the sales related personnel. They only wanted the developers and a small staff of managers - so the rest of us were let go. I tried any and all companies during that time but I just could not get a job. Six months later I finally took a position with a very small company that paid me half of what I had earned the previous year. And I was driving to and from work 180 miles round trip each day. But I had a wife and two kids to take care of so I did what I had to for employment. I also went through almost all of my life savings.
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