No kidding on the health insurance, I'm currently covered under my mothers family health insurance plan until I turn 26. So I've got a little less than a year to go, not sure what I'm going to do then.
We actually sat down and looked at the costs, and it ended up being cheaper to get family insurance through my mothers employer than it was to for me to get insurance on my own.
So now my parents have blue cross through my dads work, and we have blue cross through my mothers work, basically only so I can get insurance.
What a racket, its cheaper to get a family plan through my moms work just so one person can have it, than for me to get it on my own.
I can't offer you any advice on the job other than it sucks not to have one right now, and its not looking good for the near future either.