Two years ago they were laid off. Since then: freelance work to keep the lights on, and applications sent out like a job in themselves — nearly two thousand one hundred of them. On Tuesday they start somewhere new. The pay is half what they used to make. The job is a ten-minute walk from their apartment. After that many applications, that was the detail worth mentioning.
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Two Years, Nearly 2,100 Applications — Then a Ten-Minute Walk to Work
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View source →Laid off two years ago~2,100 applications while freelancingStarts a new job — half the pay, ten-minute walk
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