Try posting your resume on the usual job boards and apply for agency or contract jobs.
Also, look for jobs that use your skills even if they are not in your profession. Be sure to have a summary section with your achievements and skills at the top of your chronological resume plus highlight benefits to the company so that it will be obvious. (All of which you probably know and are doing).
Further, though, if you are getting to the point where you may be homeless, apply for help. SNAP is usually possible to qualify for even if you have some savings still. Then other agencies will automatically qualify you if you have SNAP (i.e. food stamps). -- Think of how many years you have paid into this benefit for others!
If you don't qualify for SNAP, try the local food bank. Often that is where I direct my VITA tax customers who are having difficulties finding the money for rent. Not a total answer, but it may be enough to bridge the gap between jobs.
I had intended to find a job and get started on paying down my maxed-out credit cards, but ended up in the hospital for nine days and discovered a lot that I didn't know about financial help for people who would normally not be termed as poor. That was how I discovered what I have written about so far. If you need a bridge loan until you get a job, like I did, try Upstart. They gave me a small loan when no one else would (except of course for loan sharks). This really helped me and when I did get a contract job, I was able to pay this loan plus the rest of my indebtedness off and then get about a three-year cushion for expenses before being laid off.
I am so hoping you get a job soon, but while you are waiting I hope one of these ideas will help make the finances last.
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