I lost my unemployment benefits in October 2011. Since then, I've been applying to jobs here and there. I've explored furthering my education, but it's been very hard to get grants.
Between whatever consulting work I've been able to pick up and my wife, who fortunately has kept her job, we've been kind of eking things out. We are on assistance now. My wife and I are getting limited food stamp money.
We're living in a room in a small house where my wife grew up. We're living with my mother-in-law, sister-in-law and youngest son. We're all just kind of pitching in to keep everything going. We keep the lights on.
There are times when things get a little tight. But the thing about it, we're all still together.
I've been out of work for four and a half years, but the biggest thing for me is that I haven't given up looking. Something will come along.
