I'd also offer this tip to you...(and I admittedly would like to live by this better).. you may not be able to find a similar job to before, and i.e.: not as "glamourous" and whatnot...if you catch my drift. Getting employment again could mean taking, like a (for lack of better expression) 'lower on the food chain' position that is less paying. There's nothing wrong with it. Work is work. A job is a job. Take something that pays the bills..which is not necessarily a 'career' with the bells and whistles. (The western countries seem to put so much emphasis on job positions! I was watching a certain program and it showed that in India, a call centre job is pretty high up there, in contrast to how that same job is looked down upon in the States) The only job that matters is worshiping Jehovah and furthering the Kingdom News. And he'll never lay us off. (Only put us on probation if we do something to dishonour him..and then He gives us the opportunity to repent and report back to "work".. No better employer in the World!)