<![CDATA[The View From Your Recession: Checking Back In]]>This reader was an information architect working on contract who had been out of a job for four months. Original post here. The reader writes:

I first wrote you in April, and I'm glad that person had no idea August was coming, because August was AWFUL. That was the month employers started auto-replying to job applications with a sinister "don't contact us unless we contact you, or we'll take your resume out of consideration" message. I hadn't been called by a recruiter or heard back from a job app for months, and I was going into debt to my parents at a massive rate and seriously considering giving my landlord notice so I could move back home to my childhood bedroom. Ugly, ugly month.

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