How Long Will You Be Unemployed? (Sigh...)

As long as it takes you to find a job—that’s the easy answer. (Or if you’re going by the government’s definition, as long as it takes before you stop looking, decide to go back to school, or take a part-time job flipping ammonia-tainted burgers.)

Here’s some more granular (and gloomy) data from the good ol’ Bureau of Labor Statistics:

If you work in the Information industry (as most of us do), the average number of weeks you’re unemployed is 30.1,