We went from being a poor society to becoming quite rich in very little time

Freelance work has dried up, and rising costs are putting increasing pressure on Rosetta Stone Acha's salary. CHANGING TIMESThe cuts point to a bigger shift in Spain. For the first time in at least three generations, Spain's young may end up with a worse standard of living than their parents. The unemployment rate for people under the age of 25 is over 40 percent and many young Spaniards, from graduates to laborers, say they expect to be worse off than their parents.That's changing the way people view their careers and lives. While Thomas used to think she would go back to work so that Acha could retire early, now she believes her efforts are better spent giving him some relief in the kitchen. She has taken up cooking and is learning to expand her skills beyond Spanish tortilla."The crisis has forced me take a step back and evaluate these changing times. We went from being a poor society to becoming quite rich in very little time. Now I want to be creative in my own house," she says.Thomas designed all of the sleek furniture in the home when she and Acha bought the apartment a decade ago. With her dream of a larger house in Madrid on hold, she's Rosetta Stone Arabic conceived a plan to divide the master bedroom into a space for her daughters and create a small area in the entrance hall where she and her husband can sleep."Our bed will just fit. We can crawl into it and I'll paint the walls dark and inviting," Thomas says.What does Acha think of the plan?"None of us will ever be able to live as well as our seniors do now," he says. "Those times are over."(Reporting by Tracy Rucinski; Editing by Simon Robinson)- - - -GERMANY: Booming again, but shorter hours have left workers scarredBy Annika BreidthardtMUNICH - Two years ago, Anna cashed in on the German government's cash-for-clunkers auto subsidy and bought her first new car in 13 years. Months later, she watched from her window as a hailstorm dented her new Fiat Panda. By that point, she wasn't even sure she could pay the installments.Like more than a million Germans, Anna, a draughtswoman who works for a car-parts manufacturer, had just been told she'd be going onto "Kurzarbeit" -- or shorter working hours. "When I saw my name on this list, shivers ran down my spine," says the outgoing 39-year-old, sitting alone on the sofa of her rented farm cottage, her back to a traditional oil-fired stove that also serves as coffee-pot warmer."I thought, 'What have I done to deserve this?'"A government-subsidized Rosetta Stone Italian program that allows firms to cut workers' hours rather than numbers, Kurzarbeit is one of Germany's signature responses to recession -- and in Anna's case, it has worked, as she's now back full time at work and busy.

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