• Learn the stock market and manage your funds.
• Do an online business
• Real Estate is the pits now... right time to get into it and redo an old house and sell it for a high price when the market correct itself
• Take a vacation to think of what you truly enjoy doing
• Set a time period before you embark on your passion
• Rent a room in your house for extra income
• Upgrade your skills and invest in yourself... it is a tax ryde off. : )
• network and socialize... you never know who can help you... when you think of a great idea...

hopefully this helps! I am doing this myself. :)

Become an online marketing guru ... it's still one of the few places a talented marketing or advertising person can really excel on their own ... nice to be able to fire your self for the day and go to the beach or add a few days onto your vacation as your bonus!

I might consider a temporary job in another field if there is no immediate employment in my chosen field. However, the best career move is always to deepen your skill set - sharpening skills that make you more valuable to employers or broaden your career choices/options. It's axiomatic: Go deeper, get more out of your career.

I guess it depends upon how fulfilled one is in one's career, profession, vocation, etc. If it ain't fun and fulfilling it is probably time to look elsewhere regardless of being laid off, quiting, or right-sizing.

What is Bio-Technology???

Why cant u c it.... its what u r looking at... ecomerce

like Jade Curtis said...take a day. Sit back and think about things without worrying, and it will work out. Bills and other things have to get paid for sure, but you do not want to miss this opportunity to pay the bills and be doing it through something you truly enjoy doing. You are obviously looking for a change of career, so take this chance to actually do what you would enjoy rather than going for something you might want to leave in a year or two.
Whether it's opening up a new technology company or becoming a chef....take this time. Turn getting laid off into an opportunity to be freed up to pursue what you really want.

If this doesn't sound good to you, and you find your self to be a bit more risk averse than others....you can always get into IT audit. It gives you good exposure to how businesses are run, and gives you exposure to multiple areas. Hopefully that can help you move into a role you do enjoy.

Set aside a whole day, with no interuption, to think, surf and write about what you want to do - write down your passion, what you believe in and how you would change the world. Then contact everyone you know to start talking about it with them - get ideas for your plan from them - and then just go go go!

Any career that pays the bills. Having been laid off myself once, I can honestly say I was more concerned about making my mortgage payments than trying to pick a new career path.

the same as the one they were just laid off from. Being laid off is rarely as much a reflection of your career choice as the problems your particular employer is having. Unless of course you make wagon wheels or something. Come to think of it with Gas going up maybe making wagon wheels is a good career so strike that. ---STUCARIUS