Even with the hopeful predictions that have been reported over the last few months by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and other sources, there are six job seekers for every available opening at this time. People who have been out of work for six months, a year or more are wondering if they will ever find the type of job they had before the recession.

So, what do you do when life hands you lemons? You make lemonade. That’s what Erik Proulx, an advertising professional did when he lost his job. He created a documentary called “Lemonade.” It’s an inspirational film about 16 advertising professionals who were laid off and found their passion—their calling. The film is about encouraging people to listen to their inner voice and ask themselves: what do I really want to do?, and make that passion a reality.

Proulx was featured in a recent interview on NPR’s “On Point” segment. As Proulx and the other people in the film discovered, there’s always an upside as with anything in life. That upside can be picking yourself up and seeing it as an opportunity to reinvent yourself by changing careers.

Unfortunately, when people lose their jobs, they don’t always listen to their inner voice. It’s often not until their backs are up against the wall that they finally start to pay attention to it.

What do you really love to do? What are the skills that you have and enjoy using? What are you passionate about? How do you want to spend your time and the rest of your life? What’s most important to you? These are the questions that may be in the back of someone’s mind after a layoff (or even before), but it’s not until they have exhausted other avenues to try and replace what they’ve lost, do they start to think about “what else?” they can do now.

For some that question can lead to entrepreneurial ventures. For example, the people featured in the film decided to listen to their inner voice and found other ways to exercise their skills—while still being able to pay the bills. One became a holistic health coach and yoga teacher; another relocated to Costa Rica and is now a successful landscape painter; yet another is a website renovator; and so forth.

People are discovering that there is no more security in a corporate job because in an ever-changing world, it can always disappear. Career reinvention is the new security. In order to move past the loss, you first have to come to terms with it and the feelings that it generates. Once people have allowed themselves to grieve and mourn the loss, can they truly say goodbye and welcome the next phase of their lives.

The key message of the film is to reconnect with the things you love and put that energy into it to see what happens. Rather than focusing on a job, zero in on the skills you know or want to develop to create the life you deserve.