I've been thinking of a plan to "rebuild my life" as well, and I decided to get ahold of an old friend or two, someone I used to be friends with when I used to be social. I haven't done it yet, I haven't even decided who, but I'm putting it out there to you. The rest of the plan is to see this person and not give them a blow-by-blow account of all the crap that's happened to me in the past four years (many bad things happened and my depression is much worse, I've basically dropped off the face of the earth), but ask them about themselves and other people I used to hang out with. Making new friends is hard for me, I'm very shy and anxious when I'm around people I don't know. I'm so sorry you lost your job. I'm unemployed as well, I can relate.