no confession to start-2011 Big Changes, A WATERSHED YEAR!
During the very mean year of 2011, I was in a very panicky financial situation. I was diagnosed with cancer. I loved working at the good and steady At a downtown law firm in Chicago on Madison St. But no firm is perfect, and I was underpaid for what a senior personal injury paralegal should be making. My boss would later explain in a very accurate way about how the personal injury law business was going through very thorough changes in how business was down post-recession of 2008-09. I had a terrible time making ends meet. I had cancer. I had a declining car. I was spending over $1,000 to keep the wheels spinning on it. My ex-wife left the condo I lived with her in since 1994. She had the opportunity to live in her father's house as he had just died, and understandably took it. Yet, we certainly weren't husband and wife material especially for other health reasons. ...