Unemployed are taking any position they can find

[jeffrey]

"I was laid off in March of 2008. I was making $55,000 a year as a media-relations manager at Pace Global Energy Services. The company reorganized, and now I work part time at Lucky Brand Jeans in the mall making $10.25 an hour.

I applied online to more than 400 positions. I applied to everything and anything, and I'm still looking. I started working part time at Lucky right after Thanksgiving.

I've had to budget everything from food to when I go to the dry cleaners - if I even go to the dry cleaners. It's all those little things that you take for granted that you notice now...

Take this job - or shove it - Nicholas Kelly - 60% pay cut (1) - CNNMoney.com

[SnoopyCool]

Amen. The question at hand becomes this: do you lie on your résumé to "dumb it down" so you can get a position that requires less of you than you are used to? You would think not, but it is possible that hiring managers are afraid you'll walk away once you find a more suitable position. The entire thing stinks.