Does anyone have any pointers for staying on task while underemployed?

[riderinthestorm]

8. My daughter just took a job 2000+ miles away. Even doing ALL of the moving herself, it cost @ $5k

$990 for a 16 ft Uhaul (towing her car). Gas was $700, tolls were $100. Stayed two nights in a hotel, another $100 while she's on the road. Her new employer is paying for the first 2 weeks at an extended stay hotel while she tries to find an apartment (so no cost there) but she's moved to Washington DC where the studio apartments she's looking at are averaging $1000 - $1200/month so the first and last months rent plus the security deposit will cost approximately $3000.

She just did this last week so its fresh in my mind.

I've always been pretty horrified at how cavalier some DUers are in suggesting someone just "move" where the jobs are. Hell, moving's expensive, even doing it yourself. (This isn't a slam at your randome, please know that... Just some DUers don't even ask nicely, they just insist that slackers aren't going where the jobs are and that pisses me off). The OP doesn't sound like a slacker to me though