Time passes, things don't change

A year and a half later. I have gotten married and held and lost 5 jobs. Big surprise, I am currently between jobs again. But what makes this one scary is that now my husband is also unemployed. Due to smart saving and budgeting, we are sitting on a nice savings, enough to last us a couple months, but that savings was supposed to go towards a down payment on a house. The job market here is so saturated that we know it will take awhile to find even new temporary positions. To say we are dispirited is an understatement. Is this the new normal? Constantly being downsized and scrambling to find a new job?