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I can empathize. Especially if one is a professional and past 50, few employers are looking. A lot of people with the option ARE taking early retirement, which helps the U1 unemployment figures, but is deadly to the nation in the long run. Others do just go with the handouts, but I really believe most people would still prefer a good job, if such were available. It truly is, as you say, very discouraging, but you just have to keep hammering away. For those who would disparage others in your situation, I suggest they try walking in your shoes for a while! There’s nothing like actual experience.

In my case I used our limited savings to refire an old “business-on-the-side”, worked like a madman, and am finally profitable — well, probably not this winter, as our Obama-electric-bills and a host of repairs are killing us, plus the Health care insurance too — but if all goes well, later in the year, I project lower middle class status for my family in 2014. The downside is that one can work TOO hard: I’d guess I’ve taken a couple years off my lifespan...

At any rate, keep your head up. You sound like a good employee, and if you keep at it, surely some opportunity will eventually turn up.