Downsized? Earn Money While You Do Your Job Search

Have you recently been downsized?

Have you discovered that this recessionary economy is making it very difficult to find a new job?

Current State of Affairs

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

• 13.7 million people were out of work in April, 2009, and that was the biggest number since 1948
• 539,000 jobs were lost in the month of April alone
• 8.9% unemployment (the highest since September, 1983), but if workers 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 unemployed for more than a month, you may be feeling frustrated, or maybe even a little panicky as you watch the pages of the calendar turn, with still no job on the horizon.  This is not just a short-term issue, there are long-term considerations as well (e.g., retirement, college for your kids).

There are basically three options in this situation:

1. Freak out
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 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. Unlike a little fear, however, panic overloads our circuits and degrades our ability to respond to the crisis at hand.

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 keep doing the same-old, same-old, you’re going to end up in the same place that you already are.

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.  After diligently answering help wanted ads and sending out countless resumes, what results have they realized?  Zilch, nada.

Even when people find jobs to appy for, they’re not getting callbacks in this economy, let alone hired.

Option 3:  Try Something New

The third option – do something different – seems to be the only plausible solution.  But this option is so wide open, where to start?

Have you considered start an online business .

• Let this be the last time you have to worry about being downsized.
• 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 future; become your own boss!  Start a home based business!

One very good place to start for securing all the necessary knowledge about internet marketing that you will need is to enroll in the Online Success for Beginners classes.

Home-based businesses account for approximately 7 billion annually and provides many tax benefits, more control over your time, your work, and your financial security.  Essentially you’d apply the Law of Large Numbers to your individual situation, similar to the way that insurance companies apply that law to minimize their risks. Insurers reduce their loss ratios by sprading their risk across thousands or millions of policyholders.

Starting an internet business will let you 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 – spread your risk across lots of people, regions, and even countries.while building a luxury lifestyle

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