Downsized? Earn Cash While You Look For Your Next Job

Have you recently been “right-sized”?

Since you’ve been laid off, have you discovered how difficult it is to find a new job during this recession?

Today’s Situation

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

• 13.7 million individuals were unemployed in April, 2009, and that was the biggest number since 1948
• 539,000 jobs were lost in April alone
• 8.9% unemployment (the highest since September, 1983), but if those who’ve been laid off and just given up or taken part-time work, are included, that number jumps to 15.8% – the highest since 1994

If you’ve been out of work for over a month, you may be feeling depressed, or maybe even a little panicky as you observe the pages of the calendar turn, with still no work on the horizon.  In addition to this immediate financial crisis, you’re probably concerned about the long term effects as well (e.g., college education for your kids, a comfortable retirement for you and your spouse).

There are essentially three choices in this situation:

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

Option 1:  Freak Out

The first option, panic, is entirely counter-productive, and should be avoided at all costs.  A little fear is a good thing – it can help us focus and energize us for fight or flight. Panic overloads our nervous system, reduces our creativity, and generally degrades our ability to respond to life’s challenges.

Option 2:  Continue Doing What You’ve Been Doing

If doing what you have been doing had been successful for you, you wouldn’t be reading this article right now.  If you don’t change what you’re doing, you can only expect to get more of what you already have.

This economy has proved to be very challenging – good people I know have been unemployed for six months or more.  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?  Zero.

This economy is tough; my friends aren’t even getting preliminary callbacks about jobs.

Option 3:  Try Something New

The third option – do something different – seems to be the only realistic solution.  But when you have so many choices, it is difficult even to know where to begin?

Why don’t you start a home business .

• Don’t worry about being downsized again.
• Let this be the last time that you have to forfeit quality time with your family by bringing work home, working weekends, or having to travel way more than you’d like.

Take charge of your financial security; replace your old boss – with yourself!  Start your own business!

One very good starting place for gleaning all the necessary knowledge about internet marketing that you will need is to join the Online Success for Beginners course.

The home-based business industry accounts for approximately 7 billion annually and provides many 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.

If you start an online business, you could be spreading your recessionary risks across millions of potential customers, multiple geographic regions, and even, multiple countries.   To increase your financial security, and income stability, apply the Law of Large Numbers to your personal situation.while building a life of your dreams