Searching for purpose

Sometimes it seems as if the direction my life is taking has gotten stuck in neutral. The engine is running, but I'm going nowhere fast. I'm a homemaker with a college degree. I applied for a job with a woman that offered me a position. It was not something that I was pursuing, but it had appeared that I had the job and that filling out an application was simply a formality. Why to people make promises like this? I could use a job, even a part-time one now that my kids are in school.