Well I'm making a decent living as a programmer here, but for the last four months I've been surfing the web, making overlong posts, and generally trying look busy. There simply hasn't been any work for me to do, but my company doesn't want to pull me from my current contract so I had to just wait for some work to come along. Finally I got fed up (nothing longer than a day of doing nothing), posted my resume on Monster and "leaked" this information to my immediate supervisor. Surprise, surprise, he found some work for me to do and now I'm up to my elbows in jsp development and happy as a clam. So the "leaking intent to find another job" does work, though for me it was more work, not more money.