Many professionals who get laid off experience great challenges in trying to find the right opportunity to get back to work. This is a bigger problem for workers over 50 who can fall prey to age discrimination. One of the best techniques to avoid this is to [pursue a field where the need is much larger than the amount of people who are qualified and the hiring preference is for a more experienced worker instead of the young kid. Project Management is such an opportunity. In the Tampa/St. Petersburg jobmarket there is a big demand which creates many openings as long as you are qualified. They work in a variety of professions: construction, information technology, medical, marketing and more. It is your ability to drive a project and do the initiating and planning, controlling and execution that is in great need.