Hello and thank you in advance for taking the time to read my life's story, I will admit that it's embarrassing and humbling to say the least to be in a situation where I'm asking for help from total stranger but yet there are others just like me willing to try whatever it takes to get to get up and get going again...

I was working as a Production Supervisor for a very large manufacturing company. They hired me on and about a month later I was told that the plant would be closing down and moving production to Mexico. I like many others am a victim of outsourcing and now the economy.

I have worked in the manufacturing industry for several years in Management Roles. I have actual experience in the industry that I obtained through trial and error, training, and just working. My expertise is Cost Reduction. I am old school and did not graduate from a college with a degree. I am from the school of hard knocks.

Being unemployed is truly the most difficult thing I have ever had to live through. I have worked since I was 15 and right now have been unemployed for over 16 months. I have applied to every job I am qualified for, joined all the social networks, worked my own personal network and try to utilize any creative way to find work.

I feel useless sitting at home not be able to work and support my family. I have a soon to be 2 year old daughter and the holiday season coming but with nothing to give. My wife is working two jobs and still we cannot make ends meet.

I have been trying to work with my mortgage company for a year now to modify the loan on our home but basically have been told that because I have still be able to make my payments (by the grace of God we have been able to do so, with the help of family and a little savings, this is all gone now) that being unemployed is not a dire enough hardship, and there is no help for me. My mother has Alzheimer's disease and my father is retired and a prostate cancer survivor and so we are thinking of moving in with them to consolidate our bills and I can help out with my parents.

It is frustrating to say the least and seems never ending. I hope they extend the unemployment extensions that are due to expire at the end of February 10 because if they don't I know what I am going to do. All I want to do is work, I would work 16 hours a day, night, afternoon or morning shift, weekends, overtime, holidays, part-time full time, seasonal, you name it.

Thank you for taking the time to read my story and thank you in advance for your generosity...