[HiTech RedNeck]

What is wrong with jobs in nursing homes or driving a truck? If you are qualified and it is a job, take it. Having a temporary job or a job outside your field, doesn't stop you from still looking for a better job.

Sounds great in principle. In practice, workers who earned a high wage but got laid off in hard times will be passed over for these low paying jobs, because the employers know these workers will quit as soon as times get better or otherwise do find that elusive high paying job. It's called being overqualified. This can't be fixed without making it illegal to discriminate in hiring based on being overqualified.

[robertpaulsen]

Benefits were already extended in March of this year, 13 weeks added to 26.

When would it be OK with you to stop these extensions?

[DandG13]

Had a well dressed, immaculate groomed man probably about 50 wait on me in deli of grocery couple of months ago. He was new and struggling with the learning of a new job. There was no doubt he was ex executive. Told my son that this was a man to be respected and why so. There's jobs and there's companys still hiring. I wonder if overqualified is more the applicant conveying too demeaning. Gotta get back to the ethic of a good day's work for a good day's pay.

[D. Miles]

My husband is in the healthcare field and he took a job once as a janitor until something in his field opened up.Your right you maybe told by some your over qualified, but then again, you may get the job! Some of us find ourselves having to return to school and retrain when our field gets tight. If you have a will to work, there is always a way!