Reply #152: In 1994 I went from being an executive to having nothing. In addition to [View All]

that I had to move my family back to the US from being overseas and didn't have any community or network to work with. We stayed in my brothers garage for a month.

I then got the idea of exchanging my labor for housing. I was able to find a landlord that needed a lot of work on the inside of one of their rentals. I traded 6 month free rent for fixing the dry wall, repairing the molding and painting the house (none of which I was experienced in). For the first two years we slept in sleeping bags. Looking back on it I think my kids remember it warmly, we had no TV only a few games we played with each other.

Keep your head up and you may be able to see some option that is not traditional. Even in the hard times some good things happen.

Keep fighting and never give up. It may sound trite but "its not how far you fall but how high you bounce".