Her furlough is up at the end of October, but
there’s no guarantee she won’t be laid off before
then. Every week, she sends out fresh resumes
from her home in Galveston, Texas. And every
day, she fends off scam artists who call with
bogus job offers as they try to ferret out her
private information.
“I’ve had anxiety that I’ve never had before. I’ve
even had panic attacks. I’ve had crazy dreams of
zombies,” she says. “It has worn on me.”
For Micah Anderson, the uncertainty has been
the hardest part — “having zero idea of what
next week is going to even look like.”
“I’m the type of person who, if I if I have an idea
of what I’m facing, I can try to make a plan that
makes sense,” Anderson says. “But you don’t
really know what it is you need to do.”
“You just have no clue. You make decisions
the best you can. And you hope that they turn
out OK.”