After getting laid off from investment bank Houlihan Lokey, Persky spent 11 months searching for work.
Stamboulie had a client who was laid off from a hedge fund research post.
Carroll went to the Middle East in 2002 after being laid off from a newspaper job.
Gamache arrived at WMS in 2000 and began hiring engineers laid off from Lucent and Motorola.
Tricia Senzel got laid off from her job as a financial planner at UBS in 2009.
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FSA, despite paying market salaries, has had to resort to hiring those laid off from City jobs.
Meantime, her house was destroyed, her car was destroyed and within days, she was laid off from her job.
Jackie Bray is a single mom from North Carolina who was laid off from her job as a mechanic.
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She was laid off from her job and is trying to run a home eBay business that barely pays rent.
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Brian Silverstein was laid off from his job as a mechanical engineer for a steel company more than a year ago.
In the U.S., as many as 4, 000 people have quit or been laid off from online ventures in the past month.
Yin, who holds a PhD in atmospheric science, got laid off from a wind-power company in Boulder, Colorado in September 2009.
Cordero said he is unemployed, having recently been laid off from his job as a tree trimmer for a power company.
When Steven Spenser, 52, was laid off from his Seattle-area software company in 2001, he decided to become a stay-at-home dad.
And Jenkins had been laid off from a teaching job that fall, at a high school for troubled teen-agers in Harrisburg.
James, a native of Oconee County, recently found himself laid off from a local plant after punching in for 28 years.
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In July 2008, Barbara Bosch, who is 49, was laid off from her job as a bookkeeper at a small CPA firm.
Now the company employs 700 educators who have either been laid off from public school systems or who are seeking part-time employment.
And we need to pass it for Americans like Denise Gibson, who was laid off from a real estate agency earlier this year.
Erin McCullar, 26, of Birmingham, Alabama, has type 1 diabetes and was laid off from her job as an interior designer in October.
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He was laid off from his 17-year job and, with unemployment hardly a survivable wage, took the first job that came his way.
After getting laid off from a security software firm in Atlanta, Mr. Deitch immediately received offers for contract work through his professional network.
In 1987 after being laid off from an auto factory job I went through a short course at a community college in Michigan.
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According to the Forbes.com Layoff Tracker, nearly 200, 000 more people have been laid off from America's largest public companies just since Nov. 1.
So while people are laid off from these idled plants, they'll actually receive about 90 percent of their pay, and they'll get full benefits.
"It takes a lot of shoe leather, " says Mr. Salguero, 30, who turned to entrepreneurship after getting laid off from a real-estate development firm.
Then, last summer, he was laid off from his telecom position.
Gamache arrived at WMS in 2000 and began hiring engineers laid off from Lucent and Motorola (nyse: MOT - news - people ).
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.
When Bryan Ritterby was laid off from his job making furniture, he said he worried that at 55, no one would give him a second chance.
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