Many managers 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 older workers who can fall prey to age discrimination. One of the most successful approaches to avoid this is to [pursue a field where the demand is much greater than the supply and the hiring preference is for a older employee instead of the young kid. Project Management is such a career. In the Tampa/St. Petersburg jobmarket there is a sizable demand which creates many openings as long as you are qualified. They work in an assortment of areas: construction, information technology, medical, marketing and more. It is your ability to take charge of a project and do the initiating and planning, controlling and execution that is in great demand.