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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It took my DH 13 months to find a job after being laid off in 2010, but I think the job market was worse then.

Are they letting him pretend he is still a paid employee there for the purposes of job hunting or is he out the door totally? [/quote]

They gave him some time to do that. If you factor that in he's been out for ten months!  Didn't help much obviously. Where did your DH land?[/quote]
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Sure, he ended up in-house for a really small contracting company. He over-emphasized his govt contracting/tech contracting experience to get the job and picked most of it up on the job. Maybe that's an angle that could work for your DH if he is used to big contracts/deals? I don't really know much about private equity (?)

The starting salary was 110, which was a big pay cut. He is now up to around 130k at the same place but still a lot less than he was making before (and is worth, IMO!). I am a teacher so at least that cushioned the blow some and we weren't screwed with health insurance, etc. We know people laid off who had SAH spouses who were really hurting with the long lag time to find a job. [/quote]

People are worth what the market pays. After looking for over a year after a layoff, complaining about his salary is pretty ballsy.[/quote]

Not really. Attorneys of equal caliber and education doing similar work for similar hours getting paid double that makes it seem like a fair complaint.

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But they weren't laid off. He was. Some if his caliber are probably doing doc review. [/quote]

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