I hear pain and frustration in this posting, and my heart is stirred. Our culture doesn’t really take that great care in helping our soldiers get back on their feet, and I am sorry to hear things aren’t going very smoothly. My wife and I returned to California with our newborn, I was unemployed for six months. I am well-educated, and had never had a problem finding work. I put out five-hundred (yes, literally) before I found something.

The point is, this problem is IN NO WAY a reflection of you, even though it effects you utterly. Our generation got it the worst, but of course the news isn’t covering that. If we had a meaningful voice, those rich guys who own the media conglomerates might be put out.

A bunch of folks from our generation have been getting fed up with being marginalized, finding refuge in the ideologies of GK Chesterton’s ” An Outline of Sanity;” Hilaire Belloc’s “An Essay on the Restoration of Property;” and EF
Schumacher’s “Small is Beautiful.” the idea is that unbridled Capitalism is a pickpocket that steals the meaning from what money is supposed to do: serve the needs communities, not urban power-centers.

Anyhow, I just wanted to say that you aren’t alone, that guys like us are regularly getting shuffled out of the mix, and I hope you don’t make any inferences about yourself from this, because this economy has failed to serve the needs of people generally for the greed of a few. Hang in there. There is a plan for you individually that is infinitely greater than the meaninglessness of the current employment crisis. You are in my prayers.