Get out!: Leaving the house may be the key to finding a job

"At some point, your destiny becomes your reality," says Patrick Herbet, a 51-year-old graphic designer who recently found a job after being unemployed for nine months. "Or wait. Is it your reality becomes your destiny? I don't know. I heard that somewhere."

For Herbet, it was both. The Arlington, Texas, resident says he lost his job last November. Six months later, he felt like he was in an inescapable loop. "You get stuck on this roller coaster of confidence, then despair, then confidence, then despair," he says. "It was like I'd see myself at the perfect job, interview for that job, miss out on that job and then go back to this dark place where I assumed I'd never work again. It just kept repeating. Like that Bill Murray movie 'Groundhog Day,' only my version was for the unemployed."

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