They're not experienced at looking for a job, and they've been out of the loop for awhile.

The last three or four years have told people in the region that nothing is secure. You have to take control of your career.

I've had a terrible time with some of the members just getting them to think there was something out there besides the steel mill.

Now it's 30 years later, and you're not needed anymore.

Many had never looked for a job.

It is a sensation not experienced by many mortals, said he, "to be looking into a churchyard on a wild windy night, and to feel that I no more hold a place among the living than these dead do, and even to know that I lie buried somewhere else, as they lie buried here. Nothing uses me to it. A spirit that was once a man could hardly feel stranger or lonelier, going unrecognized among mankind, than I feel."