This is a very interesting and enjoyable read :) I know that I have had a few wilderness experiences myself where I feel at the mercy of the fates. Being unemployed due to unexpected redundancy is definitely a wilderness, as you are thrown into such uncertainty, sometimes it's difficult to know what to do for the best! We can only try our best and trust that things will work out :)

On a realted note, I remember once reading about the Samurai warriors of old who would spend time as Ronin, where they would serve no master and venture out into the world on their own. Many feared doing this as it meant living without the support or the greater sense of duty that serving a supervisor would bring them, but it was also said that you could not be called a true Samurai unless you had endured Ronin at least once in your life. That to me seemed very much akin to the fear of unemployment.