For the first time ever in my adult life I am out of work. Made redundant. Not through choice did I find myself with nowhere to go one Monday morning. What do you do? Embrace the opportunity to take some time off? It is very difficult to 'embrace' time off when you don't know how long your forced sabbatical will last...and when you're someone who has worked part time even while at school, college and worked 2 jobs for years when you were younger, its tough. Actually it w