Sorry, but people in this country are "sufferrintg" even if not physically.

I had a Government job working in the National Marine Fisheries Service, as a commercial fishery and research fishery observer. Thanks to the War in Iraq, on more than one occasion funding for various "non-essential government agencies" (such as NMFS) has been re-allocated to the millitary for the War in Iraq. As a result, all of the research projects I had been working for lost all of their funding, and a number of observers were laid off due lack to funding.

So I lost year round work, and have been working multiple part time jobs since 2005 trying to make ends meet.

I get to see a lot of my former collegues now when I am applying for the few positions that become availible in our field.