Architect and Construction Administrator Lucas McGrail of Livonia, Mich. sits at his drafting table in his home. McGrail was laid off in 2008 and has been under-employed or unemployed ever since.
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Architect Lucas McGrail has been without regular employment for four years since losing his $75,000-a-year construction manager job when his industry imploded during the Great Recession.
Since then, the 38-year-old has cobbled together a patchwork of part-time gigs equaling about $10,000 a year. He has also submitted more than 3,000 resumes, generated a half-dozen interviews - and still feels like a job could be just around the corner.
"I don't want to lose who I am and what I spent all these years and all this money to become and just fade into oblivion," he said. ...
