Last July, when Owings Mills native Elmar Trust started as an investment-banking analyst at Bear Stearns, he planned on staying for two years before moving onward and upward,

“I thought I was in a job that would really catapult me and give me lots of opportunities in finance,” Trust said. Eleven months later, he finds himself unemployed.

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