My mood would swing from day to day. After looking for several months, it's frustrating when I couldn't even get an interview. I only had two, and I had started looking back in March. Well, the second one hired me. Except that I have no benefits, and no paid time off. And it's 100 miles away from home, so now I have the added expense of renting a room and staying there during the week, then coming back on the weekends to visit my wife at home. It kinda sucks, but at least I have a job.... for a year. It's a 1 year project, so I get to do this all over again next year. The mood swings have changed from angry and frustrated, to scared and frustrated. At least this pays better than unemployment. But with the added expenses, I may not be making much of a "profit". Even so, it'll be a slower bleeding of my savings than the minimal unemployment "paycheck".