Downsized & Can’t Find Work – Earn Money While Looking for Your Next Job

By Article Guy On November 16, 2009 Under Affiliate Marketing

 

Have you recently been downsized?

Have you found that this recessionary economy makes it very difficult to find a new job to replace your old one?

 

Present Situation

If so, you have lots of company.  December 2007 marks the official beginning of this recession, and since then, more than 5.7 million jobs have disappeared.  According to the Associated Press (AP), after the May 8th release of the April, 2009 unemployment numbers:

• 13.7 million individuals were out of work in April, 2009, and that was the largest number since 1948
• 539,000 jobs were lost in the month of April alone
• 8.9% unemployment (the highest since September, 1983), but if people who’ve been laid off and given up or accepted part-time work, are included, that number jumps to 15.9% unemployment – the highest since 1994

If you’ve been unemployed for over a month, you may be feeling angry, or maybe even a little overwhelmed as you observe the pages of the calendar turn, with still no job on the horizon.  In addition to your short term worries, you’re probably also concerned about things like being able to send your kids to college, or how to fund your retirement.

There are essentially three choices in this situation:

1. Panic
2. Keep doing what you’ve been doing (the same things that haven’t yet found you a new job), or
3. Try something new

 

Option 1:  Panic

The first option, panic, is completely counter-productive, and ought to be avoided at all costs.  A little fear is a good thing; it can even help us save our lives in dangerous situations, by engaging the fight or flight response. Panic, however, overloads our system, resulting in fuzzy thinking, confusion, fatigue, and gets us nowhere.

 

Option 2:  Keep Doing What You’ve Been Doing

If doing what you have always been doing had been successful for you, you wouldn’t be reading this article right now.  If you keep doing what you’ve been doing, you can only expect to get more of the same.

I don’t know about you and your industry, but people in my industry – good people – have been unemployed for more than six months, unable to find a comparable job to the one they left; or even, any job at all.  Despite doing all the “right things” (e.g, answering help wanted ads and sending out resumes), what have they got to show for all that effort?  Nothing. Zilch.

Not very many people are getting hired in this economy; many people are not even getting callbacks from their resumes.

 

Option 3:  Try Something New

The third option – do something different – seems to be the only realistic solution.  But this leaves you with many, many choices – so, where should you start?

Try something new: start a home business .

• Take control of your financial security; don’t let others determine whether you have an income or not.
• Don’t continue to sell your soul to the company store.

Take control of your life; become your own boss!  Start a home based business!

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Home businesses account for approximately 7 billion annually while providing tax benefits, more control over your time, your work, and your money.  If you were to apply the Law of Large Numbers to your personal situation, you could minimize your income risks during this recessionary economy. Insurance companies spread their loss risks over a huge number of customers.

An internet business will reach thousands, and millions, of prospects allowing you to spread your recessionary risks across multiple people, regions and countries.   To minimize your recessionary risks, do like the insurance companies do – apply the Law of Large Numbers.while building a luxury lifestyle