Hi, this is Nicki with 2K's and the Morse Code Translator, and we're here to say...

Chancho, when you are a man, sometimes you wear stretchy pants in your room. He's for fun.

Don't worry, I won't tell nobody.

Even the stretchiest of stretchy pants provide little comfort, little sugar for the soul of the many people, many, many people right now who find themselves out of work.

And we're going to talk about it this hour, by the way, it's just after 9 bells BST, which means it's time for the third and final hour of TBTL on this Monday night.

We probably more than is healthy, I know it's certainly in Gen's case, more than is healthy.

Take an active interest in the lives of our tens of listeners, and that means that when they are out of work or money is tight and we kind of hear about it, maybe in an email exchange or through some grapevine or through the tens meta blog or however it might be, it really affects us and we worry about people.

And it seems like last year, maybe when the show started, we get an email now and then about somebody who was out of work or talking about not liking their job but not being able to go somewhere else because economy is tough.

But now it seems like a pretty regular occurrence where we hear about somebody who's lost their job and is looking for work and is finding out things like we got an email from somebody who said,

I went to Starbucks for an application and they said, we're not hiring and this person had said, their back of their mind was always, I could always go work at Starbucks.

I know it was interesting this morning because Jason put himself through architecture school as a paperboy and he always has said to me, you know, times get tough, I'll just go back to delivering papers in this morning.

The news comes on at the PI's closing tomorrow and it was just like, oh, that was my fall back.

I know what if there's no fall back? I mean, I don't want to terrify people but it's, I think it's just, I mean, I was listening to a story today about a business that went bankrupt and the guy a business in bankruptcy and the guy was saying, you know, two months ago, everything was fine.

And I thought worst case scenario, I'll just have to run the story at three stores. I'll have to run the store by myself. It'll be like old days and I'll just be the guy who handles everything at this hardware store or whatever it was he sold.

And then it was just like lightning quick. One thing went to another is all of his assets became frozen and he was like, he's bankrupt now. I think people are finding that it happens so quickly.

Things just kind of back up on you because I think that everything in terms of like the economy and businesses and even people in their personal finance have had this thing where they've had a lot of bills and there've been, there's been a lot of debits, but there's been a stream of money that's been flowing.

As long as the money flows at exactly the right pace into their life, then it can flow out of their life fine and then life continues. But if for one week, that stream of money gets interrupted, this whole chain of other events happen and it can be very traumatic.

Okay, so with that setup, what we are about to have is a conversation that hopefully won't be too awfully depressing about the economy or about looking for a job and also just about how, how, what it feels like to be out of work and to have people trying to help you.

We've got a listener named Jason who was seeing all these 25 things about me, let's go around and he he put up his own list of the 25 things that as a job seeker, he doesn't want to hear.

And then Jen, I think you kind of asked him about it and then he sent you an email kind of laying out his own job history.

He's somebody who is qualified to do work in the medical field, which is something that like everyone's getting old right and breaking up.

Well, they keep saying on the news as long as you're an education or health care, you're safe.

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