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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What an amazing opportunity. You can do *anything* you want. I'd want to write a book on organizational health. And maybe start an Etsy shop. I might want to run for city council. Or advocate for my little suburb to legally be its own city. You've been unshackled from the need to make money, and only need to get the household stuff done you basically already were doing. What will you do with it?[/quote]

That's kind of how I felt when a job loss led to me being at home with our kid for a couple years. Like OP, I have to work -- I could never just be content to cook and clean look after my kid, who is honestly pretty low maintenance. But I was coming out of a really stressful job situation -- my layoff happened in the 5th round of a restructuring during which I'd had six different bosses, two of whom I never actually met in person. It was hell. So after about a month of just decompressing and getting really bored, I sat down and figured out what I would do with myself if money was no object. Now, money actually was an object, as we could get by on one salary but not without sacrifice. But my husband knew what I'd been through and agreed I shouldn't just jump into another job because I was super burned out.

I wound up starting a blog, joining a professional organization for women and making a bunch of new contacts, and then took on a few small marketing/communications jobs via those contacts, mostly for small businesses run by women. I had never worked in marketing but I'm a good writer and I really know business. I did that for a while and eventually turned it into my own business. I know that sounds like a fake story because it's so simple, but it's true. I never would have expected to say that getting laid off wound up being the best thing that could have happened to my career. But it was.

Hang in there OP. It is hard, but it can only get better.[/quote]

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