Since the labor market in is a tight hiring situation, entrepreneurship is a good option to be competitive in the market. It turns out that Seasonally Acute Depression might do more than just put a few people down in the dumps.  Unemployment rates increased with the arrival of winter storms, as the Labor Department reported 10,000 more people went unemployed in February than in January – and that many more people can't get payday loans if they tried.  Underemployment spiked as well.  It seems that there's no end to the real depth of the recession, though winter storms don't have a causal relationship to unemployment. Correlation does not imply causality. Furthermore, weighing your options for entrepreneurship might be a good forward to you.