Manufacturing jobs may have left the country but there are still jobs in service industries as well as in creative design occupations.
You can scramble around looking for jobs like you used to have or you can take stock of your skills and assess the opportunities to put them to good use.
Look at the situation as one of potential exchange. Someone needs something done, can you do it and get some worthwhile exchange for it?
If you keep your eyes open for opportunities to help others in some way, you are likely to stumble across an opportunity that you will not find in the want ads.
The other side of the coin is to look at what your former customers are doing now instead of buying products or services from you. Small businesses that are still operating after four years of economic uncertainty have figured out what customers are willing to pay for and have adjusted their product offerings accordingly.
If you do not have useful skills or products that are in demand, perhaps it's time to regroup and figure out what skills and products are needed and wanted and do whatever is necessary to produce what is wanted.
Keep on refining your offerings even when you achieve a measure of stability because we may be in for many years of increasing uncertainty.
Try to develop multiple sources of income.