If you’re a twentysomething college grad and spend your days complaining on Facebook about how there are no jobs or how the job you have is menial or how living at home is really a bummer, it’s time to make some changes.

Stop fighting the recession and miserable job outlook and start working with it. If you can’t find a job in your chosen profession consider these five ideas:

1. Take a year off and volunteer: If you can withstand living in your old bedroom for a year rent-free, you can volunteer just about anywhere and get some experience, contacts and goodwill. There are also some paid volunteering jobs out there like AmeriCorps, which will give you a small stipend.

2. Start a business: With a small amount of money, you can set up an LLC (limited liability corporation) online, get a company bank account and start a company website, blog and Twitter account in no time. Once you come up with the idea, you can literally be up and running within a few hours. Gather some of your unemployed friends and start brainstorming about what you community actually needs and how you can help fill that need.

3. Go back to grad school: If you’ve thought about getting additional education, now is the perfect time. Talk to the admissions offices and find out what you would need to do to start taking some classes immediately while filling out the application process and waiting on acceptance.

4. Travel the world: While this may seem crazy considering you’re broke, it’s still doable and, frankly, probably the last time in your life where it still be okay to be a traveling fool. See if you can’t find at least one other travel partner, investigate cheap hostels and flight deals and start selling your worldly items to pay for the experience of a lifetime. You may never have another chance.

5. Pay back your family: If you’re home and under- or unemployed, this is the ideal time to pay back your family for the last 20 or so years of them feeding, clothing and educating you. Help out around the house: Do the food shopping, cook the meals, clean the dishes and do the laundry. If you have a talent, showcase it for your family: Build the deck they always wanted, plant a garden, clean out the garage and attic. It’s always good to give back and since time is now on your side, use it.