>I also suspect there is more to the story, and I would like to point out that he was unemployed from 1993 to 2007 This is an excellent point. I was working fo

>I also suspect there is more to the story, and I would like to point out that he was unemployed from 1993 to 2007 This is an excellent point. I was working for a Boston-area acoustical consulting firm in the late 1990's and we had a hell of a time recruiting people. After an unwillingness to so so, the firm had to start giving out signing bonuses to attract candidates and still lost applicants to competing firms.