Labor Day Outlook: How Secure is Your Job?

On the eve of Labor Day, Eagle Rock Patch wants to hear from readers about an issue that has been important to many of us: Given the painfully slow recovery of the U.S. economy since the 2008 financial meltdown and the fact that unemployment in California stood at 12 percent in July, according to the California Employment Development Department, how have you been coping on the employment front?

How secure is your job—or business? Have you—or Eagle Rock residents you know—had trouble making ends meet? Do you worry about your future—or are you reasonably sanguine about it?

And as you look back at the ups and downs in our economy over not just the past few years but the decades, what’s the best—and worst—job you ever had?

Tell us in the Comments section below. Or e-mail Eagle Rock Patch Editor Ajay Singh at ajay.singh@patch.com.

This article is part of Patch's nationwide series "Dispatches: The Changing American Dream." Tell us what issues and what stories in Eagle Rock go to the heart of your American Dream. Please contact editor Ajay Singh at ajay.singh@patch.com.