Just to add I’m in Florida and have been out of work since December of 2008, and that was working overseas in Australia for a landscape architecture / land planning company out there. I was on a one year work and holiday visa and unfortunately when that ended in April of ’09 I had to return to the country. My old employer in South Florida would love to hire me back but they don’t have the workload at the moment to do so. It seems as if it hasn’t picked up much at all here due to the poor real estate market and lack of new construction going on. I will be forced to seek work in unrelated fields to get by in the meantime.
