Most of you are in for yet another shock, maybe worse than the one you received just now. While you're "picking yourself up off the floor" and thinking happy thoughts about how much better off you'll be, in reality you just joined an army of around 500K recently unemployed retail workers.
Yes, that's right. It's nothing short of Armageddon in retail land right now, and not much better in other industries too. You can look forward to applying for a job along with hundreds of other people, getting little to no interviews, and watching retail get worse by the week in the process.
You will need much, much more than happy thoughts in the days ahead.