I will lie to eat.
The next job when I was unemployed in the early 80's was a draftsman job at a Civil Engineering group. I lied on my resume, took off my college degree and had a buddy act as my reference. Got the job and was grateful to be making a third of my previous job. I was over qualified but I was eating and that is the most important thing. I stayed there 6 months and bar-tended at night. Finally a better job came along.
Like I said if it is between me living on the street and a job I will get the job, hook or crook.
PS when I worked those dumb-ass jobs to survive NOBODY had to spend a dime training me and I was productive from minute one.
We all have to survive, I can go back into the survival mode at anytime.
See you just proved exactly why not to hire overqualified candidates. You left in 6 months, so then they had to go through all the expense of the hiring process again. They would have been right to not hire you had you been truthful on your resume because you did EXACTLY what they would have feared.
They might not have had to spend any money training you, but they still spent tons on the rest of the hiring process, the time it took to sort through resumes and interview people to get to you (and then your replacement 6 months later) wasn’t free. That’s paid time that could have spent doing things more directly related to earning money.
I understand your position. Desperate times, desperate measures. What I’m pointing out is the other side, and how your action actually prove the other side is right. You cost them exactly the time and money that’s why not to hire overqualified candidates. Looking at reality from the other side is where real learning happens. There are good and valid reasons not to hire overqualified people and you yourself have BEEN those reasons.