Out of a Job explores what happens to a twenty-three-year-old college graduate when he loses his well-paid job and is forced to move back home. Although everyone is pulling for Richard, the cards seem stacked against him. His confidence and self-esteem erode. His computer-whiz kid brother, with whom he has to share a room, begins to taunt him. His friends cease to understand him. Pride seems to be his greatest stumbling block, until encouragement comes from an unexpected source. Richard begins his battle to rebound from defeat and, in the process, begins to show signs of compassion and maturity, and to develop new relationships with his parents and younger brother.