Tricia Senzel got laid off from her job as a financial planner at UBS in 2009.

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But, this time, it was just due to the economy that I got laid off.

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You retrained as an auto body mechanic, but then you got laid off again from that job.

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Her peers, students, determined she was the best teacher in her school district -- she got laid off.

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Your job is to think about those workers who got laid off and how are we paying for their retraining.

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Yin, who holds a PhD in atmospheric science, got laid off from a wind-power company in Boulder, Colorado in September 2009.

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After he got laid off, he found himself trying to steal chickens from a nearby farmer to feed his hungry family.

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Many people also likely started businesses in 2010 because they got laid off or their work hours or pay got scaled back.

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"On the day I got laid off I got a packet slapped in front of my face and that was it, " she says.

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" And they said, "Well, you know what happened was, we used to work in this old plant, and we got laid off.

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He worked for an automobile company and he got laid off.

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Jeff Yin, a programmer who got laid off from his wind-power employer in September 2009, started picking words from home for Trada a few months later.

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K. MURDOCK: Well, the last time I got laid off, I got -- they -- unemployment paid for me to go back, because where -- my job went overseas.

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You probably spent it grinding away at a thankless job, having been burdened with the workload of three people in your department who got laid off, and you still see no prospect of a raise or a promotion in sight.

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In a few short years, Gill, the Yale-educated son of the famed New Yorker writer Brendan Gill, closed the consulting business he started after he was laid off, got divorced and was diagnosed with a brain tumor.

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You've got millions of construction workers who've been laid off as a consequence of the housing bubble going bust who are ready to get on the job.

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While older, more experienced and better-paid reporters were getting laid off left and right, I got hired because my employer could pay me pennies, and I would work my butt off to prove myself.

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Now, with a lot of people being laid off, with less disposable income, that's got to have affected your business.

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