Beau815

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Anyone else pick up heavily on this brewing habit to eat up some time while job hunting? Ever since The Hartford Insurance Co. threw me out on my @ss, Ive become a master brewer lol. Not really but I read about every thread known to man on here. Something good can come out of something bad after all.

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McKBrew

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Put some of that effort into searching for a job and you'll be set.

(just flipping you crap)

Weezknight

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Sorry to hear about your layoffs. I'm not laid off, but I have read every thread here, multiple times! I do a lot of the I.T. work for my office, so perusing HBT looks like work to everyone around me.

I'm going to be doing my first batch in a few weeks, so I figure I'll have the process pretty much nailed by that point!

HenryHill

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HBT is filthy with us.

Toolmaker in job transition.

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JuanKenobi

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I'm laid-off right now too. I've got a new gig lined up, but it doesn't start until the end of April. I spend the first half (at least) of my days catching up on new posts. The tough part is not being able to sink silly amounts of $$ into all the toys and DIY projects I spend all my time reading about. Soon enough...

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Pouring: Porpoise Hork Amber

RCCOLA

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I'm right there w/ you except I'm off for 6mths w/ shoulder surgery.Can't even lift a brewpot!!SUCKS!!

sahuaro

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I too am a layed off HT junkie. It's amazing the ways you find to pinch-pennies and refine your brewing process when you have to.

Boodlemania

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To all you folks who've been laid off - good luck to you! I have some very close friends who have recently met the axe.

Also, my company is down below 50% of the employee levels we had this time last year, with more layoffs coming. Right now keeping fingers crossed as I am in sales/project management, so I would _hope_ that I'm relatively safe.

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LaurieGator

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I am also laid off doing the active job hunt thing... Figure the brewing helps me to keep my chemical engineering skills a little sharper :-)

I am also taking this opportunity to do all of the DIY projects (like MLT cooler) and get a number of batches in the brewing pipeline before the awful dead of summer hits (aka 120F outdoors). I got a pretty good severance package when I got laid off so it helps a lot...

Being laid off was also what it took for me to take a closer look at all grain brewing. The initial start-up was planned for, but there will be some cost savings in the cost per batch. Craigslist has been great for finding odds and ends here and there...

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zippyslug31

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Soon here as well; just don't know my end date yet.

Pretty interesting when it hits so many real people.... even though you electronic bits on the interweb don't really count as "real people".