The nine beginning years of my life were in the great depression following the crash of 1929. This was a period of great hardship. Unemployment was immense and included a majority of the population unemployed. I recall, as a small child, after having been tucked into bed, hearing what sounded like crying. I crept part way down the stairs to verify what it was. I will always remember hearing my mother crying (perhaps for the first time in my life) and saying to my dad, who then had acquired a temporary job working on the highway for the state for $0.50 per week, "Harris, it is Wednesday, we have no food for the rest of the week!" I remember Dad consoling her (and unintentionally me also) saying "I will get some food for us". He reminded her that God had always provided. The crying stopped and I slithered back up to bed before being caught. Dad's return the next evening, with a nice catch of fish, was the beginning of my expecting a blessing in every downward turn of events. There were many times during that 10 year period when Dad had no Job at all but that gave him more time to hunt and fish and Mom became exceptionally proficient in coming up with recipes that used dandelion - a major vegetable during those very hard times.

If you have been laid off, look for the blessing. Have you considered an online job? The web provides a widened world for the unemployed to seek new opportunities! If you have, are, or plan to look for an online job, may I propose that you think about more than an online job and consider owning your own online business. People who look for the blessing in their unemployment may find it the ideal time to commence their own business. Unemployment provides one of the most important and hard to find ingredients for starting an Internet business or any business, time.

If you have time on your hands, invest it in something that can provide lifetime income from home and in an environment where you are your own boss. Many people try this and fail. The primary reason for the lack of success is the lack of time and lack of dedication to work hard, to start your own business. The greatest reasons for individuals dropping out before their business is a success is:

1. they don't have anyone to lead them through the steps in the process,
2. they can't focus on the essentials because of the massive distractions on the 'net,
3. they don't have a way to plan their steps because they don't know what they are
4. the distractions are costly and so they have unnecessary expenses from trying a variety of suggestions, many times from people who give bad advice.
5. they cannot budget properly because they are unaware of what is neccessary and what it will cost.