...so am I
Since you asked: 51; Nixon was president when I began my adult working life.
Unfortunately, the 'career' I stumbled into back then was integrally connected to the construction industry, which (as I think you know) is notoriously cyclical. Perhaps it is coincidence that the cycles tend to follow a change in the party wielding power in DC, and therefore national economic policy. However, government buildings can be a substantial fraction of the available projects - and I'm not just talking about Federal spending, but state and local, too (county jails and state prisons have been Big Business in the recent past). That sort of public spending tends to dry up quickly during Republican administrations - it's what they advocate, after all.
Making the whole pie smaller (not just the government's part of it) makes the competition meaner - a lot of folks get a much smaller slice, if they get any at all.
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