I've already weighed in earlier but Uncle Bob's post brings back memories of the early 80's for me. We had a shop in Iowa, Body Shop/Auto/ Truck/Farm equipment repair. Carter's grain embargo put the squeeze on farmers (our customers) so we found ourselves on a sinking ship. To make a very long story short I found a job in the 11th hour of looking, out here in IL. We ended up selling nearly everything out of necessity & since it was a depressed area we got about .28 cents on the dollar. That was not enough to get us above water so for a good long while working the new job I made payments to the bank back home until we got out from under the whole deal. Did I mention we had a 2 year old & a 2 month old @ the time to take care of.
Now about 30 years later it's a whole different deal.
If things had turned out a little different (as in) if we could have made it go and hung on to that business, I don't think we ever would have realized the life we have now. I think we would have always been just getting by. At the time I thought it was the worst thing that could happen especially with 2 little kids in tow. Looking back it was without a doubt a blessing in disguise.

Hope everything works out for the best for you too Scooter.