Sociologists have not adequately addressed the subject of downward mobility for suburban Whites. Decades after the postwar rise of a suburban class, and in the wake of the Great Recession, such research is needed. This dissertation offers an empirical case study that documents how unemployed suburban professionals manage job loss. It is guided by the following questions: What does it mean to be White, white-collar, and unemployed? How do suburban Whites negotiate the stigma of unemployment? What strategies and tactics do they use to find paid work again? Drawing upon 50 interviews with job seekers and resource providers at church ministries and private networking groups, as well as participant observation in these spaces, I find that suburban Whites struggled in particular ways with job loss. I discuss how unemployment impacted the gendered identities of men and women in my sample, including the limits of certain gender normative coping strategies. I also identify three variations of a personal responsibility discourse that circulated among the resource providers studied. Borrowing a term from my participants, I refer to their job loss as a "transition." As a frame that maintains middle class respectability, transition illustrates the consciousness of once privileged workers reacting to new economic conditions. I examine the meaning of this concept in the context of neo-liberal disinvestment that has now touched the lives of affluent Whites.