I know someone who has been out of work for four or five months. (He had been a big-wig at a financial/investment firm and got laid off.) I greeted him the other day when we were both out raking leaves and asked how the job hunt was going.

"It's been hard. I can't find anything," he said.

"So you haven't even had any nibbles?" I asked.

"Oh, yeah. I've had a few interviews and one even offered me a job. But none of them wanted to pay me as much as I was making before. And the one that offered me the job wanted me to do grunt work for about half of what I was making before. They didn't respect my talent at all."

"Hmm," I said, not wanting to say what I really thought. "What about another line of work? Have you thought about taking something else, like retail or contractor work, until your dream job comes available?"

"Oh, no. If I took something like that, it would cheapen my skills and make me look fooli...

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