Today is day four of being part of a 10%.  In high school, it meant being in the top 10% of your graduating class.  Today for me, it means being a part of the workforce that is unemployed.  I've had a great career thus far, a working mother with full-time positions all along.  It was inevitable perhaps that the downsizing trends of corporate America would eventually catch up with me, and yes, I am in good company with many other professionals.  Yet, well, it is really strange to not get on a train every morning and worry about the commute if it snows or if the snow will cause a delay in schools opening.  The house is very quiet, disturbed only by the typing I do on this rather noisy keyboard until the kids come home from school.  So my new job as a working mother is to find a new, fantastic position.  Armed with my new Blackberry Curve, and the fantastic  ipad,  away I go.