even if you do manage to lie successfully, it still makes a tough situation. you might over-inflate your salary and discount yourself as a potential hire altog

even if you do manage to lie successfully, it still makes a tough situation. you might over-inflate your salary and discount yourself as a potential hire altogether. i know a guy whose first job as a high school intern paid more than most people's career salaries do. and once he got out of that job, he could never get another job at any place that asked for previous pay rates. he earned too much previously, and not even retail work at the local mall would hire him. he kept getting told that his previous salary was too high and they couldn't afford to hire him. he eventually stopped reporting that job experience altogether.