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Ex-NASA Employees Attend Job Fair in Orlando
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Former space workers search for employment
- Duration 1:38
- Date Jul 27, 2011
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Less than 24 hours after shuttle Atlantis landed ending the shuttle program after thirty years.
Hundreds more space workers lost their jobs and joining the thousands of others who were already laid off.
The timing of this job fair could not be better -- services.
-- -- -- -- Jill hill -- -- -- managed other engineers working on the shuttle solid rocket boosters for united space alliance.
I'd like thousands of others Joseph is now looking for a job.
For the first time in more than thirty years.
I'm too young to retire to all the attention job across.
-- in that mix this job fair offers engineering and other high level jobs it's a joint effort between a roomful of government agencies.
-- -- -- -- Home the other things on an angle and it's an -- Jill -- is chatting up here and another room full of private companies with names like Harris.
Chrysler and -- don't.
Companies hill already met and handed -- He was laid off in April and says he's been looking and hopefully.
-- since he's just trying to get.
Including the working.
Some people.
They -- want to resonate don't take the resonating everything back the travails of the job search Jill hill never thought he'd face and one that's very tough to take.
Even in a room like this one filled with possible.
That's a scary time.
Top 40% of the private sector jobs being offered here today and Central Florida the government jobs well they could be anywhere in the world.
So even if someone does get a job through this -- it's likely they'll be leaving Central Florida.
In Cape Canaveral Tom Johnson -- thirty Biden.