Yes try to find freelance work immediately, contact recruiters and see if they have any small gigs that are available. The point being make some breathing room

Yes try to find freelance work immediately, contact recruiters and see if they have any small gigs that are available. The point being make some breathing room so that you have time to evaluate your next move. Hit up people that you know and see if there company has any small projects that have been on the back burner for a while. See if you can persuade them to fund it and let you run with it. Remember all you have to do right now is cover living expenses to give you time to breath. A lot of people will get caught up with not making less than the last job, which should be a goal, but when committing to small term efforts the first and foremost concern is to cover the rent, to give you breathing room, from there you can make bigger decisions. Once your rent is covered raise you rate to the next small project that comes along. Do this until you find a job you are interested in, or have built a freelancing network that will support you until you do. Be careful though, you can get caught in the freelancer trap, where you start earning too much to go back to a day job, this can make you pass on what would have been good opportunities. It's a strong market for us right now and we are blessed for that, so don't panic and work the numbers, a contact is a potential project so ask every contact you make.