Being without a job is one of the worst feelings that one can experience.  You feel extremely negative about yourself and feel worthless and hopeless.  However, you would only feel that way if you allow yourself to.  In other words, how you feel and view things is up to you and you alone.  Adversity can either bring the best or worst in you.

When you no longer have a job, you have lots of time on your hands.  If you choose to do nothing and just sit around, you'd invariably have negative thoughts.  You would probably think of how useless you are and how insignificant you are.  So, your primary objective should be to do something productive with your time.

So, what can you do when you are just sitting around in your house?  Well, if you have a PC and internet access, you can do a lot of things online that can earn you money and more importantly improve your self-esteem.  There are a lot of work-at-home jobs out there, which you can look at.

You could join one of the social networking sites out there and make friends and contacts.  Apart from providing a feeling of community, they'd help alert you on any new job openings.  So why not do that, if you don't already have an account on one of those sites.

Keep a positive outlook on life and enjoy the time you get to spend with your family and friends.  Don't shut yourself to the outside world and family.  As I've mentioned above, look at work-at-home online opportunities to keep earning.