Anonymous wrote:What about professions in healthcare like nursing, speech patholigy, ot, PT?

Nursing seems like a pretty solid job although I hear its pretty rigorous and physically demanding.

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Anonymous wrote:Sometimes layoffs are legitimate cutback and sometimes it's a way to get rid of under performers.

DH has been laid off twice. His field is shrinking, so the jobs are few and far between. He's employed now, but he and everyone in his office feel nervous. He's over 50, so if he loses his job, it may be a while before he finds another one.

I think it's important to broaden your skill sets when you are young, and keep looking for new options and opportunities. DH does not want to do this. He wants to work in the same field, where the jobs just aren't there.

Sorry about your difficulties, OP. I feel your pain. We're anxious all the time about DH's job. We can't live on my PT salary, so don't know what we'll do if he gets laid off again. He's a hard worker, gets great reviews, and is paid reasonably well, but that's actually a liability. He's expensive, and can easily be replaced by inexperienced 20 somethings. They don't be able to do the job he does, but the bean-counters don't care.

It's a scary time for us.

get a job at cognizant

I've said this before in other related threads. My wife is indian and her first job in the states was with cognizant. Cognizant is unequivocally the worst most atrocious slave labor, nepotism infested, abusive companies She and I have ever been exposed to.

They treated her like a slave. Making her do the work of others and letting the other person get the credit. Passing her up on raises and promotions no matter how well she did in "reviews" or how many awards they gave her and the clients she worked for gave her. I would lost the clients she worked for but I won't. They should be ashamed for hiring cognizant. Absolutely shamed to death. Making her stay up late to take offshore conference calls to India to work with her incompetent offshore team. Who were all related. It's so incestuous how indian IT works. Southern Indians really dislike northern Indians which I never understood no matter how many times it's explained to me. So there is some racism involved in indian IT as well as nepotism.

She was severely underpaid. I mean laughable so. Like 50% less of what she made at her next job. She was lied to constantly. Especially about moving expenses being covered and then they would refuse to talk about why they only paid half of what the agreed to pay. They just treated her like a slave. It's a wretched company run by wretched people from the bottom to the top. I hope they all get hit by bus.