A previous employer, out of the blue, reached out and asked me to rejoin the company based on the work I had done for them previously.

I was only unemployed for a few months.

In 2006 I hit a year of unemployment where I simply could not get hired, I exhausted my unemployment benefits and went deeply into to debt by paying bills with my credit cards.

I eventually had to declare bankruptcy to recover from that period - it was incredibly stressful.

I got a job in spring of 2007, and that job was where I was laid off between Bush and Obama.

The sad thing in this country is there's not really a lot of help.