Well, hopefully things will work out well for you.

I really did not mean to make it sound like all gloom and doom for me in my post, because I failed to mention that its not like I could not get another job. I actually can get a job at a local phone repair company making $14.00 per hour and ironically, my boss would be a lady which I used to be HER BOSS! Thats strange I know. I also have a friend at a local airport that has been trying to get me to come to work there for alot more $ than I am making now, but its just where I have been at my job so long now. I love the work, the people I work with and the hours... on average its always 10am-6pm (sometimes I get off @ 5 or 7pm and pretty much leave when I am ready and have no direct boss/manager hovering over me. I actually rarely see him or my supervisor - I guess because they know I do my work, but do not like to pay anything ) and I always make my own schedule, as well as for about 5-8 other people in my department... then as mentioned I have the 401K, super dental/health insurance, ESOP, etc.

Maybe one of these days I may take one of those jobs I have been offered or get myself a meteorology degree and be a meteorologist, but that would mean me driving a total of 3 hours per day to the college I would have to attend, because the closest school offering the classes I need is in Asheville, NC - which is a 90 minutes drive away- then I would have the battle with my poor mathematic skills.

Otherwise, its getting bad here... not many jobs in the way of factory jobs anyway and now what few we have are closing. In this area, unless you are a lawyer, dentist or work at one of the many local hospitals in the metro area, you will not get a good paying job, unless you work at Eastman Chemical Co. in Kingsport, which is a big company where the "well to do" work at in this part of the state. I would never be lucky enough to work there.