Comments on: Shuttle Program Layoff https://habitablezone.com/2012/07/15/shuttle-program-layoff/ Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:18:10 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: ER https://habitablezone.com/2012/07/15/shuttle-program-layoff/#comment-16464 ER Sun, 15 Jul 2012 19:07:29 +0000 http://habitablezone.net/?p=18351#comment-16464 I went through a similar exerience when the Cold War ended and I was layed off as a Silicon Valley software engineer for 15 months. I had to burn through half my life savings, sell all my furniture, and move across the continent to find a job doing similar work at 40% my prior salary. And I was one of the lucky ones, I was in my mid-forties, out of debt, had no kids, and the economy wasn't in the shape its in today. <blockquote>"STOP sending former Space Center employees," one employer wrote to Brevard Workforce, the local job agency, in a comment included in its monthly committee report. "They have an unrealistic salary expectation."</blockquote> "Unrealistic salary expectation", eh? That's priceless. I went through a similar exerience when the Cold War ended and I was layed off as a Silicon Valley software engineer for 15 months. I had to burn through half my life savings, sell all my furniture, and move across the continent to find a job doing similar work at 40% my prior salary. And I was one of the lucky ones, I was in my mid-forties, out of debt, had no kids, and the economy wasn’t in the shape its in today.

“STOP sending former Space Center employees,” one employer wrote to Brevard Workforce, the local job agency, in a comment included in its monthly committee report. “They have an unrealistic salary expectation.”

“Unrealistic salary expectation”, eh? That’s priceless.

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