Spinning My Wheels

I am in a funk of discontent. I cannot seem to reconcile my age with my current earnings and cannot find anything with longevity in this valley. I feel like I am on a ship that is slowly taking on water and I have no land in sight. The current state of the economy does nothing to assuage my concern that this valley has become too hard to live in. It was nice for a while to forget the outside world and put careers and dreams aside but now it is getting a little disconcerting as I have no plan B at this time. While working in Advertising/Marketing and PR has been rewarding to some extent, there isn't enough business in the valley for a firm to really stay busy - thus I have but my business licensing on hold until the economy turns and it makes sense to do so again. It seems like every frustration is magnified by 1000 here in the bubble - lack of job growth, lack of affordable real estate, lack of stability, lack of OPTIONS. I guess if I wanted to be a snowboard bum this would be the place to do it, but I have put my career and any real plans for the future on hold to make this work and now I have no clue where to go from here? How do you rejoin the REAL world? Will I be competitive in the REAL job market? Who knows, maybe this is just another by-product of turning 31 this month. I need a life.