I had been laid off from corporate world in May, so I was home job searching, remember Monster dot com? My wife called to tell me to turn on the TV.
It was at that time I realized I needed a job, any job. I felt the future was so uncertain that rather than wait for the "ideal" job, I needed to be employed somewhere, anywhere. I immediately went to visit several chains, Wolf Camera, and big box stores, Lowes, to find something. I stumbled onto the trick to getting hired at Lowes and went to work there the next day. It was the beginning of a 10 year crawl back up the pay scale and the path to a new career.