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I can totally relate. I'm a computer programmer and have been unemployed since April.

I sold my house and am leaving at my sister's. My mortgage was about $1000, I'm paying my sister $300 including utilities and everything.

She wouldn't charge, but I insisted I'd pay something.

I've still got a $750 BMW payment though (I was young and stupid and makeing too much money when I bought it). Uh, this economy is so depressing.

Do you know WebSphere? AIX and Solaris UNIX? OS/390? Are you Java certified by Sun and IBM? Can you debug and profile distributed applications? Do you have experience in VisualAge for Java or WebSphere Studio? Can you write shell scripts for the UNIX korn shell, write, debug and deploy Enterprise Java Beans? Do you know MQSeries? Do you know SOAP, WSDL and UDDI? Do you know mainframe and distributed DB2? Do you know Oracle 8i?

I can get you a job paying good money in a Fortune 500 company right now if you know these things.