Losing a job...

Both financially and mentally, losing your work is devastating. You feel rejected by the future and concerned about it. In the expectation that you'll find a job soon, you start on a job quest as fast as you can. You start to despair as the weeks without a bid turn into months. If you're lucky enough to have one, and unemployment insurance protects you from dipping into your savings, your severance package, but those resources won't last forever.

In a difficult job market, for months at a time, even those who are exceptionally talented can be out of jobs. Although it is difficult to be confident that things will quickly turn around, you have to maintain a positive attitude. Your emotional well-being is based on it, as well as the impact you make on prospective employers. When it seems like your work quest is in desperate straits, here are some things you can do to keep your head up.

Work searching can, to say the least, be extremely exhausting. You can feel ready to give up between filling out hundreds of applications, reading each resume and cover letter for typos, and going into an interview after an interview with little insight into the bid.

No matter what your work quest throws your way, there are so many ways of keeping yourself hyped up.

Treat your quest for work as a job. That means that each day you should spend about eight hours on it. Get up at the time you did when you were employed in the morning and quit working no later than when you left your day job. To your optimistic attitude, being constructive will lead.

Take some time out. Try an activity that forces you to stop thinking or talking about job searching, instead of staring at your phone. Get away from the phone and your screen.

Take on household tasks for which you do not have time while you are employed. There's a fair chance you've come home from work tired every day while you were working. Tackling a job like cleaning out the closets or painting the den was the last thing you would have chosen to do. Since you probably tend to look for a job from home, you won't have to deal with a regular commute. Your day will now end a little sooner, and you will not be as exhausted as you were when you had to deal with traffic or packed trains and buses. Before you retire for the evening, you'll still have some extra energy to get rid of.

Adjust your daily routine. At the end of a hard day of work, do you still work on job apps? Before perfecting your cover letter, do you focus on your resume? Are you writing work applications from your bed at all times? Whatever your work hunting routine is, turn it up.

You may be able to see where you might be inefficient by giving more consideration to how you fill out your work applications. For example, when you do work in bed, you can often get sleepy. You will get a fresh burst of energy to keep going by heading to your kitchen table.

Concentrate on various methods of looking for work. The only way to land the job could seem to be to fill out the application, send in your resume and cover letter, and spend your inbox constantly refreshing the next week. Or spending hours composing the ideal email if you're looking for freelance or contract jobs, and then spending a week refreshing your inbox. The job hunt, however, doesn't need to be that way.

Job hunting can mean a lot of different things, so think about changing it. To meet new people, go to networking activities and conferences.

Discuss your hardship. Never feel like you've got to go alone through the job hunt. Find a friend that's going through the same things. Also, don't be scared to ask for suggestions or constructive criticism from others.

Know new skills. In addition to making you more marketable, learning something new will help you to feel better about yourself. As this is a time when you do not have a lot of extra money to spare, by continuing education in your community, look for free online courses and low-cost courses available.

Embrace the little wins. Either you have failed at your ultimate target, or you have succeeded in getting to that point at so many other stages of the game. Think of everything you did that was awesome before you start beating yourself up about what did not go well. With your cover letter and resume, as were your initial interviews, we're on the right track. Keep in mind that those things matter!

You will be on your way to the letter of offer in no time by taking time off, clearing your head, and looking at the positives.

And it might be time to focus on some new , high-demand tech skills if you start to feel like you need a leg up in the job hunt. Even if you have never found yourself a "computer user" or dipped your toe into the technological waters, you will distinguish yourself from the crowd and place you at the top of the list by learning even a few digital skills.