It’s easier to find a job if you currently have a job. If you wait until your job is gone, then it gets much tougher...timing is everything.
Timing certainly helps, but you can increase your options by broadening your search area. It amazes me that so many have chimed in and tell me I don't know what I'm talking about when I just lived the last 30 years doing exactly what I describe. I've worked in some real 3rd world $hit holes, not because I wanted to, but because that was where the money was being paid. My experience has been that it is easy to rise to the top of your immediate workforce with a moderate effort. A lot of people I've encountered work harder at getting out of work than the work itself actually is. Everybody has worked around people like this to one degree or another, too.....