11.   Adding to her woes, her husband was laid off from his full-time job at a telecommunications firm, and is also working through a temporary employment agency.

12.   After being laid off from a four-year temporary position as a mail carrier, my husband has become a fast-food restaurant manager.

13.   After being laid off from an accounting job and nearly losing his home, Helms says he found peace and success in his submerged world.

14.   But in April, he got laid off from his nine-month-old job as an environmental engineer.

15.   But when he was laid off from work, he applied for unemployment benefits.

16.   Chandra Mundra joined the KIT List after he was laid off from Silicon Graphics in August.

17.   Dan Oakes was able to attend Wednesday because he recently was laid off from his job as a designer for Compaq Computer Corp.

18.   Dubin was recently laid off from her job.

19.   Eva Marie Plaza, a database and Web developer who lives in Manhattan, has been looking since she was laid off from TheGlobe.com last April.

20.   Eve Digman had been unemployed since she was laid off from her job as a claims handler at the Bergeron Insurance Agency, they said.