You probably won't believe me, but I gave up counting after 50 employers - sometimes I worked 2 jobs, tried my hand at my own business twice, and had a number of employers all in the same field. Used to be a lot of factory work in my youth so it was easy to jump ship. Most of all the companies I have worked for are no longer in business - so even if I had stayed, they would not have.
The scary part is going from a daily routine knowing you have a job to the unknown - what am I going to do now? Can be overwhelming if you start to overthink it or go into panic mode. I once got down to my last $35.00, yes, $35.00 and had sold most of what I could and was looking at living in the back of my car for a while. But just as I thought I was done for, I landed a job and began immediately and everything moved forward from that point. Scary, you bet.
The last job I lost had me taking 5 months to find my present job which I have been at 12 years. Again, scary looking every day for a job that pays better than your unemployment knowing your unemployment is close to running out and taking an $8.00 job just won't cut it.
Jobs also become harder to land as you get older, sucks.
The key is not to give up and don't kick back and rely on the severance pay or unemployment. Right now you may get the $400.00 a week from the Government ($300 Fed/$100 State) plus your state's unemployment check - so you will have a solid income. If you make under 100K a year, the Government has stopped taking out Federal taxes right now. So that is another plus.
In your field of work, you should not have a problem getting employed even if it means a spin-off from what you would normally do. Keep all options open. Not sure if you are rooted or can pick-up and move to a more flourishing area. Sometimes moving can bring more opportunities.
So do not sink into the mode of "despair" and get depressed. Move forward at first chance and give yourself some time to find a job you want instead of need. I always shoot for about 3 months. Often, when 1 door closes another opens and then I find myself in a better job and wonder why I didn't leave my last one sooner. Jobs today do not last like our father's generation - cut-backs, lay-off's, job outsourcing, and companies flat out going out of business or overseas. So my company sees me as an employee with a clock number and don't have any loyalty to me and my family, so I see my company the same way - I don't have any loyalty to them and if the right opportunity comes around, I'm gone.
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