BF>> I have my own buisness and have an insurance that will fall out in
 BF>> something will happend to me. Doesn't it work like that in the US?

 SH>   I'm in Canada where everything is government run.  So even though I paid
 SH> into the employment insurance fund, I am not actually able to collect on
 SH> that.  Same with Workmans Comp, I had to pay into it all these years, but
 SH> if I had hurt myself at work I wouldn't have been able to collect due to
 SH> the fact I owned more then 40% of the shares.

Sounds strange. Why do you have to pay to somthing you can't use?

 SH>   I'm scanning the entire echolist right now, and from what I can tell the
 SH> only dead echo's are the BBS ones.  Everything else seems pretty active,
 SH> not as active as it was in the early 90's, but so what?

Here in Sweden we are only two left as far as I know.

 SH>>> just keep throwing out the resumes and hope something comes along
 BF>> What do you want to do?

 SH>   To be honest, I don't know.  I'm 34 years old, so I'd better figure it
 SH> out soon. :)  I've been in the IT sector since 1992, so that's all I
 SH> really know.
 SH> But I'm not really interested in staying in that business.

I understand you. It's better to do somthing with your hands.

 SH>   The other problem is this:  When I was 16 I dropped out of highschool
 SH> because you didn't actually NEED it to enter college.  So I have 6 years
 SH> of school and tons of experience, but without the highschool I only seem
 SH> to be able to get more IT jobs. 

I think it's the same problem everywhere. Experience isn't worth much but a
college degree is, how stupid the person is.

 SH>   Oh well, I'll keep looking in IT, and in the meantime drive a cab to
 SH> keep the family fed.

Good luck.

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