“I feel completely useless.”
Buck up, camper. Things WILL get better. This is the worst the economy has been in my lifetime by far. It will pick up.
As for unemployment, been there, done that and I know it deeply sucks. I was a little younger than you are at the time. I did find something eventually although it was outside my chosen career field and it forced me to move to an area where I didn’t want to live. Turned out I liked the new career field more anyway.
Prayers up for a job for you.
Thank you for the kind words.