I've had six raises in the past year & my company matches my 401k over 300%.
That's great to hear and do they have any openings?
Seriously, outstanding. My company laid off a bunch of people and contracted a bit at the end of 2008, but mostly it was good pruning that needed to be done to get rid of leftover bloat from acquisitions during the boom years. Now we have streamlined operations and I just closed in the last few weeks on a new $1 million dollar facility in east Texas and just wrote another $625,000 contract on another facility in west Texas. We're also about to put in a new location in North Dakota and recently added about 3 new yards in Oklahoma. As RJ says, there is lots of opportunity out there if you are willing to get out and look
and work for it rather than stay on the government tit.
I fully believe the American economy will eventually recover on it's own despite the government - because it is just in our nature. Barry's Tzars can cap executive pay all they want - that will only result in the best and brightest moving on to private non-government industries where they will work their capitalist magic and be wildly successful in another industry. Everyone's just kinda been on hold to wait it out to see what direction things would go. But they won't wait forever on Barry to get his act together. They will eventually just change their path to go around him. That is the true nature of the capitalist American business man. Always has been and always will be despite who's in the WH.