Being dropped like a bad habit

After three and a half years in the industry, I'm going through my first layoff. And believe me, this is hard. The company provided a list of half-assed options for trying to stay employed, but the only real information they had was, 'you are being laid off.' As I try to save my job, my financial future, and my sanity, I'm realizing that what I'm fighting for might not even be worthwhile. I'm trying to hold onto a job that is a figment of my imagination. Journalism is dead. The dream I had of what journalism should and would be when I was in high school is no longer the reality of this profession. I dreamed I would write for Rolling Stone but in reality, I am not Kurt Cobain's daughter (did you hear she interns there? She is 15. Must be nice) so this will never happen. Even if I began writing features at the lowest local community paper and worked by way up the ranks for 10 horrifying years making less than 30k at most of those jobs, I would probably never be granted even an interview for a freelance post. The good jobs in journalism are few and far in between and the job security is even weaker. If you are reading this and you work at a newspaper follow this advice: Get out now!!!! But if you are reading this an you are an exec at a newspaper, I guess you are ok.