Don’t give up yet! (www.despair.com)With a river of employees exiting the doors at the bank-formerly-known-as-Washington Mutual’s fancy headquarters, and rumors of a very large axe falling later this month at Microsoft, it feels like the Northwest is job-seeker hell. No so, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The Puget Sound Business Journal reports that the employment tracking agency counted 19,000 new jobs in the Seattle metropolitan area during November, putting us fourth behind Houston, Dallas, and Washington D.C. The report doesn’t say what those new jobs are, but if you were a recent victim of the cuts, it seems there are sources of income out there, so there’s some goodish news.