Whats up? Positive thoughts! You will find a job. You will be ok!
For what it's worth, I used to be a corporate recruiter in a past life so this caught my eye as I was lurking. When faced with the most down-trodden, pessimistic clients I would say: Do you know anyone else who has ever been fired? Yes, of course. Anyone who was laid off? Sure. Anyone who was "dowsized", "rightsized" or any other "euphemism-ized"? Yes. And of all these people you're aware of, how many of them then wound up unemployed for the rest of their life? Um, none. That's right. Now let's get to work.
I will tell you three other things:
1) Keep looking, stay active, stay out there. Don't know if your next job will come with your ninth application/interview or your eighty-ninth. But the more and the faster you get them under your belt, the quicker #9 or #89 will be here.
2) Call everyone you know or are even slightly acquainted with and let them know and ask questions. Not yes/no questions (people will usually opt for no), but questions, "who do you know that might be hiring?" or - even better -"Who do you know who might know someone else who might know who's hiring?" The vast majority of hirings result from an acquaintance or an acquaintance of an acquaintance providing a contact, an introduction.
3) If you are in a professional or business field and know any HR people call them up, tell them you value their professional opinion and could they give you 20 minutes to hear your introduction/interview script and critique it. You're flattering them, not asking for a job, so not putting them on the spot. They will usually say yes.
Off my prior life soapbox, now.
Good luck.
Gardener
"My soul, be satisfied with flowers, With fruit, with weeds even; but gather them In the one garden you may call your own." Cyrano deBergerac
