Article April 16, 2001 Issue

WHEN YOU'RE DOWNSIZED

David Hilton

Several years ago I found myself in a business storm. Just five months before, I had sold my business in Atlanta, where I had many business contacts. I had moved our family to Memphis, where I had almost no contacts. There I started up a new division for a large computer company.

While watching the news one evening, I found out that our US Memphis headquarters building, where my new office was, had been put up for sale. This scared me. After all, I'd already sold my business, and my wife and I were expecting our second child.

Since I was in the high-growth high tech industry, I wasn't worried about finding a job—even without contacts. I mailed out 200 copies of my résumé. But after two months I still hadn't received a single response, nor had we been able to sell our house and make the move.

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