If you can't find a job Enlightenment is a good Goal

Buddhist monks say, "Carry Water Chop Wood" which might be useful if you can't find work. At least, if you are in the U.S. you can get food Stamps so you can eat or even go to soup kitchens if you need to to stay alive. In many other countries such things don't exist and people are now just starving to death. You don't need to starve if you are in the U.S.

When the unemployment rates nationwide were above 10% last around 1980 to 1984 I was 32 to 36 years old and was married and was raising my son and my two step kids. We took our savings and bought land in the country without electricity but with water, a septic tank and an outbuilding with a toilet and decided to sell one of our vehicles to buy enough building materials to build ourselves an A-Frame to live in "rent free" during this bad economic time in some ways very similar to now. During those years we saved about $60,000 in rent by using our savings and buying land and building our A-Frame. We home schooled our children using Oak Meadow School's independent study program for 4 years and went about finding enlightenment through studying with Native American Medicine men and Tibetan Lamas. During this time I and my wife also did a 4 day no water or food fast "Vision Quest" to find our visions for the future of ourselves and our family. These visions eventually took us for 4 months to India and Nepal and Thailand and Japan during 1985-6 for about 4 months while we traveled throughout India with our Tibetan Lama Friend Geshe Lobsang Gyatso who has now passed away. But, like then, now is the perfect time to retreat to the wilderness, live simply, carry water, chop wood, keep your smart phones for communication and internet and live simply in beautiful places and survive well with your families in a wilderness experience while becoming enlightened.

If you can't find a job hire yourself. Be your own boss in every way. Be the Captain of your own ship and prosper the rest of your life wherever you live on earth. It's what Americans have always done. It's time to do it again.