You spent the past 20 years of your life writing code in COBOL and JCL for a major telecommunications company using all sorts of proprietary protocols and now you are out of work, victim of the economic meltdown. Nobody is biting at your resume because your skills are not very desirable and headhunters keep telling you they have nothing to tell you about. Is it time to throw in the towel and go pump gasoline? Absolutely not!!
Take stock of your whole self. Be creative inyour thought processes. In addition to programming in old languages, you spent the last ten years helping friends pick out new laptops and then loaded them full of software. You spent time about your house of worship teaching the office staff how to work with Windows operating systems. Also, you enjoy dealing with the public and like driving from place to place. Gee-you sound like a candidate for Geek Squad or similar or to work in tech support at your local Staples or just maybe, print some business cards and make a business out of doing the things you like to do. Financial rewards may be a bit slow in coming, but no slower than being unemployed!
Of course, this scenario could easily be adapted to any sort of skill sets. Never give up as every event in life does have a silver lining!
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