Well, first off my comments were kinda focused on the slumping U.S. economy, which is probably in a different state of recession/depression than the economy of your country. I'm not saying that everyone in the world who's ever had an IT job should be able to easily get another. I just know around here, there are a lot of people who are unwilling to take a step down on the totem pole now that our conditions have changed.

Secondly, I just see too many people who DON'T have the skills and expected the dot com boom of the nineties to sustain their ridiculous spending habits for years to come, and are now all of the sudden caught short, and upset that they can't get a cushy job. Here in America, there might not be super-duper IT jobs for those of marginal qualification like there used to be, but there ARE jobs that will give them a reasonable living. My mother is a research chemist with high credentials, and right now she's got a retail job lined up until she can get something better. And this prick is sending out spam so he can get his kids the new X-Box instead of the Super Nintendo. (Yes, I'm inferring and jumping to some conclusions.)

You are clearly NOT in the category of "marginal qualifications" like a lot of the people I see around here, and you're in a different job market than the one in my area of the U.S. All I can speak for is what I see, and I see a lot of people who were in the right place at the right time, got a cushy IT job, and now that they're out of work, have bills to pay, and are unwilling to accept a lesser job, thinking they're "overqualified." If I lost my job tomorrow, and truly had exhausted all options in terms of cutting expenses, etc., I could find a job that would get me by.

I guess I should have attached the whole Spam mail I got, because it makes this case for this poor guy who can't get his kids anything for Christmas, etc. Maybe I jumped to a conclusion or three, but I was made ill by the concept of someone sending out spam to get a web design job when they could be out there getting a real job (not necessarily IT related) and working on getting an IT job via more ethical means. I didn't mean to put down anyone who's been out of work, and I don't believe I have done so. I just call things the way I see them, and you guys are/were clearly in different situations.

Anyway, can we all agree spam sucks?