I can't image any task more demeaning or disheartening than looking for a job; except, perhaps, for filling out student loan applications. That can make you feel like what I can only imagine being anally raped without lube would be like. The older you are, the most discouraging the process can be. It becomes embarassing to admit to people you don't know, or to yourself, that you have very little to go on in the way of real, marketable job skills; and, coupled with that, a massive fear of leaping headlong into a workforce you've only got marginal acquaintance with.