Many professionals who get laid off experience great challenges in trying to find the right opportunity to get back to work. This is especially true for mature workers who can fall prey to age discrimination. One of the best techniques to counter this is to [pursue a field where the need is much greater than the number of people who are qualified and the hiring preference is for a older worker instead of the young kid. Project Management is such a career. In the Tampa/St. Petersburg jobmarket there is a big demand which creates many openings as long as you are certified. They work in a mixture of areas: construction, information technology, medical, marketing and more. It is your ability to lead a project and do the initiating and planning, controlling and execution that is in great need.