Opening Doors

摘要

In october 2013, I was one of many U.S. federal employees who took an unpaid vacation popularly known as the government shutdown. The furlough notice arrived during my honeymoon, making both events even more memorable. In the blink of an eye, I was facing the same prospects confronted by many of my colleagues in the quality field in the aftermath of the Great Recession: job loss and the looming necessity of a new career path. At the time the furlough hit, it was not clear how long it would last. I stopped by Prince George's One-Stop Career Center in Laurel, MD, during the second week of the shutdown to look into training and retraining programs for displaced workers.