text: Keep in touch with your engineer friends who have jobs.  Sometimes, they need extra help on projects, and with them knowing you and your available skills, that can give you a direct route for being hired by the company.\n\nAlternately, apply your engineering skills to tasks you can achieve right now, and build your skills.\n\nFor example, you could engage in entrepreneurial projects, at your own expense, that you might transform into a working business.\n\nEven if you cannot find a paid job, you can work part time as a volunteer in the meanwhile.  Not only does volunteering help people out, but it can give you valuable experience while exercizing your work skills and people skills, and also connects you with more people, which also gives you a better chance at finding gainful employment in your field. Being a volunteer not only boosts your life skills, but likewise, boosts the appeal of your resume.\n\nThe more you involve yourself with work interacting with a wide variety of people, the more work opportunities you'll find.