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Hi, I'm looking for wonderful advice as a way that I can help out my husband.

He worked in pharmaceutical chemistry with a bachelor's and a PhD, worked for 15 years, got laid off in 2011, and he's never gotten a job since.

It's been really challenging.

Whoa.

He was laid off.

Yeah, big time.

His layoff coincided with Obamacare being launched and pushed to get all sorts of pharmaceuticals

down to generic price, so it made research really hard to be profitable in the U.S.

And of course the financial crisis had started in 2008.

So there were thousands of chemists of his caliper looking for job.

He looked all over the United States. We were willing to move.

We had followed his career previously.

And I had been a stay-at-home parent, but when he was two years out of having a job, I went back in, and I got a full-time job and rebuilt my career,

which has been really helpful, but it hasn't replaced his earnings because my bachelor's degree

earnings do not equal PhD earnings in chemistry.

Apparently they do.

Yeah, they do.

They far exceeded.

Well, I guess in that case, yep, you're right.

What I want to do is figure out how I can help him out.

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