Is it really that bleak? I am also broke and jobless at the moment, but I don't consider myself unskilled. In fact, I was very good at my previous job, but it's not something I'm interested in doing anymore, so I'm looking for other avenues of employment, though to be honest, I might go back to my old occupation and slave it out in an undesirable location for a year or two to get some savings going.

In the meantime, I've been using the time to catch up on things I love. For example, I'm writing again and shopping things around for publication. For whatever reason, when I taught writing while abroad, I barely wrote at all. Maybe it was because I was in a non-English speaking context, or it was too much for me to process, or maybe I found it depressing to correct people all the time. In any event, getting back into it has made me think about going back to school, possibly for writing, though I'd have to do some research on what the job market is like for English professors (probably not so fantastic right now).

My point is, life is too short not to struggle and fight our way through to things that we hope for. If I'm going to fail, at least I'll fail on my terms.