SeTara DeThrow

Hi TaraD, thanks for commenting on my article "2009 Tax Breaks". I guess we have more in common than you think. I currently work in a public high school in the counseling office. I have been employed at the same job for 19 years now and up until 5 years ago, I was a full time employee. You are right, teachers are losing their jobs daily. Not to scare you, but I see it happening at my job yearly. This is why I got back into Network Marketing. One day, without notice, they came to me and about 10 other people and told us we were no longer full-time employees. I now work 10.5 months throughout the school year. What this means, is when school is not in session, I don't get paid. I lost $10,000 in annual salary and 5 weeks vacation too. Healthcare, which I didn't pay for prior to this incident, I now have to pay for,which is very costly. Let me tell you that I have never completely recovered from that loss in salary. I would love to do AmeriPlan full time, but I can't afford it. It is my plan to retire myself from my job at the school in 3 years. So continue to be aware of what's going on in the world, but don't let it control you. Just be prepared. When they did budget cuts at my job, I was told in March that I was not going to be working over the summer. I had 3 months to prepare for not getting paid for 2 months over the summer. At that time, I was a single mother with a child in Jr. High school.