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Eliana Osborn
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2 Responses to Why It Pays to Be Unemployed
los_dados_eternos - August 27, 2009 at 3:25 pm
$18,779?? Nice….In my case, it was $4,000. :(
cunningham2 - August 27, 2009 at 11:42 pm
Or on my case, nothing at all. The money went to a bunch of folks who were till messing around long after I’d completed and moved on. It could have been absolute penury that motivated my getting done quickly.