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Simple Dollar  Reader mailbag: Losing my job in August. What do
I do now?  When you're about to lose your job, figure out where
you want to go.  By Guest blogger / March 17, 2010  Trent
responds to readers' questions.  Jake Turcotte/The Christian
Science Monitor   The more of life I experience, the more I
realize that the most valuable thing a person has in their life
is time. The cost of a book is trivial compared to the value of
the time spent reading it. The cost of raising a child in terms
of dollars is far less than the value of the time spent rearing
the children.  Skip to next paragraph   Recent posts  Time is
the one thing I wish I had more of.  I just found out that I
will be unemployed come mid-August and I am just wondering what
steps I should start taking in savings and job hunting until
then. I am currently an Americorps*VISTA, which means that I
cannot start a second job until the completion of my term
(again, August). I live very si