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Personal interview number two:
接受參訪的第二人：
Blake Mitchamore worked for a logistics company for the past two years, scheduling and providing customer service to clients.
布萊克·米查莫爾在一家物流公司工作了兩年，為客戶做安排，并給他們提供服務(wù)。
He moved with the job to Moore, Okla., at the beginning of the year.
今年年初，他搬到了俄克拉荷馬州的摩爾市，還是做著這份工作。
At the end of March he figured out he was getting fired when he noticed the company had cashed out his vacation pay.
三月底，他發(fā)現(xiàn)公司兌現(xiàn)了他的假日津貼，他才知道自己遭到了解雇。
"I was not expecting it," says the 38-year-old, who's been in the transportation business for 15 years.
現(xiàn)年38歲的他，已經(jīng)在運(yùn)輸行業(yè)工作了15年，
"It's what I've always done." Logistics was a high-growth sector with perennial worker shortages, so the pay was good, he says.
他說：“我是沒有想到，這是我一直在做的工作。”物流業(yè)是一個高速增長的行業(yè)，長期以來缺乏工作者，所以工資很高。”
One of the anomalies of the recent expansion was that workers without college degrees actually saw a faster pace of wage gains than recent graduates.
最近出現(xiàn)擴(kuò)張的一個反常現(xiàn)象是，沒有大學(xué)文憑的工人實(shí)際上比應(yīng)屆畢業(yè)生的工資增長速度更快。
"I've done fairly well for myself without a degree," Mitchamore says. He says he's considered going back to school but isn't certain he'd earn back the investment.
米查莫爾說：“我沒學(xué)位，但我自己干得還不錯。”他說他已經(jīng)考慮重返校園，但不確定是否能收回投資。
He filed for unemployment, but his estimated entitlement came back at $0.
他申請失業(yè)保障，但他估計(jì)得不到賠償金。
He can't figure out why, since no one at the inundated state benefits office picks up the phone.
他不明白其原因，因?yàn)椴粍儇?fù)荷的州福利辦公室沒有人接聽電話。
So he's living off some severance and the federal government's $1,200 stimulus check.
所以，他靠遣散費(fèi)和聯(lián)邦政府1200美元的經(jīng)濟(jì)刺激項(xiàng)目為生。
Without jobless benefits, "things can only go on so long like this," he says.
他說，沒有失業(yè)救濟(jì)，“情況只能這樣持續(xù)這么久”。
Mitchamore says he's desperate to get back to work, despite the health risk: "I would be prepared to go back—lockdown or not—because I have to."
米查莫爾表示，盡管存在健康風(fēng)險(xiǎn)，但他還是很渴望重返工作崗位，“我會準(zhǔn)備好重返工作崗位，處于隔離狀態(tài)也好，不隔離也好，因?yàn)槲冶仨氝@樣做。”
"I felt like I was on my way to making it," says Maxwell Rogan, about a month after being laid off over a Zoom call.
“我覺得自己已經(jīng)走上了成功之路，”馬克斯韋爾·羅根說。他大約一個月，因?yàn)橐煌娫挾獾浇夤汀?/div>
The 26-year-old Brooklyn, N.Y., resident had imagined he'd grow along with his company,
這位26歲的紐約布魯克林居民曾設(shè)想，自己會和公司一起成長。
a startup that sold staffing software to restaurants, eventually gaining equity, "I saw myself becoming a manager in six months."
這是一家初創(chuàng)公司，向餐館出售員工軟件，最終獲得股權(quán)，“我預(yù)見自己在六個月后成為一名經(jīng)理。”
