Many professionals who get laid off experience great challenges in trying to find the right opportunity to get back to work. This is even more an issue for workers over 50 who can fall prey to age discrimination. One of the most successful techniques to counter this is to get into a field where the need is much bigger than the amount of people who are certified and the hiring preference is for a older employee instead of the young kid. Project Management is such a career. In the Tampa/St. Petersburg jobmarket there is a sizable demand which creates a significant number of opportunities as long as you are certified. They work in an assortment of areas: construction, information technology, medical, marketing and more. It is your ability to shepherd a project and do the initiating and planning, controlling and execution that is in great need.