Hang in there! The break sounds like a good idea. It DOES get discouraging. It took me a year and a half last time to get hired and even then it was a minimum wage retail job. I live in one of the most depressed areas of the US for work, plus I'm 58. I'd like to work until retirement, but now it looks like the retailer that hired me might go under. If it does it will be the third time over the last four years that I got hired and then the company went bankrupt, only to have me out looking all over again.

Ugh!

And I so sympathize with the selling everything part. It's so discouraging. We had to do that to get through my husband's five month illness in 2009. We sold most of what we owned and ended up having to go bankrupt anyway. I was paying on all our medical bills, but the combined total of all the medical bills equaled more than our income--that's just the medical bills! It's so messed up.

Anyway, remember it isn't you. It's the times. I know that doesn't pay the bills, but it's easy to take it all personally and it really ISN'T you.