File for unemployment. Review your finances & savings. Look into cutting back on things. Figure out how long you can hold out with just your unemployment bef

File for unemployment. Review your finances & savings. Look into cutting back on things. Figure out how long you can hold out with just your unemployment before you have to dip into your savings (or retirement, life insurance, whatever). If you have student loans, now is the time to tell them you lost your job & won't be paying. They're far friendlier about it if you tell them before than after. Polish up the resume. Start posting it to Dice/Monster/etc. Go have a beer. Getting laid off sucks. Have another one because beer is good. Depending on how evaluating your financial situation went earlier, you may want to take a few days to relax & just not give a fuck, if you can afford it. If you can't, time to get started... Start looking for jobs. Depending on how much experience you have & how much local demand there is for them, you might have to put a lot of work into this & spam out resumes, or you might get bombarded by recruiters. Either way, eventually, you're going to have to start working again.