A Rant and Cry for Help Regarding Employment...
My husband is one of the best autocad drafters there is (accurate, detailed, think on his own, etc.) and worked his way up to a plumbing designer at a local company in Dallas. Within a year of reaching this status, he was laid off (this was right when the economy tanked just before Obama's first term). Since then he has found work only through temp agencies for alleged temp to perm jobs. We now understand that "temp-to-perm" means we're never really going to hire you, ever, just pay you a lower wage with no benefits, be grateful you have a job even if you are overskilled, blah blah blah...
So, everytime he gets laid off he is forced to accept the next offer that comes along, usually at a lower wage which means that he's also entitled to less and less unemployment wages.
So he is now going to see if the Texas Workforce Commission can send him back to school to learn yet another career; but what career? He's excellent in math and his latest job involved the metric system and international work.
Do ya'll have any ideas what career move he could easily make without years of school?
Has anyone else experienced this temp to perm issue?
For any workers heading to all these great jobs in Texas that Perry is touting keep this in mind. 
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