One of those open positions was with Job Service, and Hobdey was hired as an unemployment insurance consultant and eventually became a tax representative with the department. ISJ: If you won the lottery, how would you spend the money? Hobdey: Depending on how big my lottery winnings were, I d make sure my kids both had their education taken care of and a nice financial start in life. I love that as the labor economist, I can be the bearer of good news instead of bad news, due to the...