Where have all the jobs gone?

I'm starting to feel like we're going to be doomed to live with my mother-in-law and have just enough money to pay the bills with Michael's balloon business. I am so confused with various feelings about what we should be doing, looking, etc. that now I don't know what to do except live each day like nothing was wrong and keep hoping and praying that things start looking up. At this point, I don't care where or what it is as long as it provides for our needs and gets us into our own place and back to having our own lives! I feel depressed alot because of this among other things,but mostly this and the fact that I am absolutely helpless and dependent on the economy. Does anybody else feel this way? Life sure is trying.