[StolarStorm]

I might agree with you if you are not counting the under-employed. My wife just got laid off. In this economy I would expect that it will take a very long time to find something even remotely close to what she did before.

So would you hold it against her if she volunteered for a charity and wrote a technical book during her unemployment time???? Would you not hire her, just because her company went under through no fault of hers and she ends up out of work for a year?

[Beagle8U]

“So would you hold it against her if she volunteered for a charity and wrote a technical book during her unemployment time????”

That is called ‘dropped out of the job market’ not unemployed. Unless one is drawing unemployment they aren't classified as such and few employers will hold that against them. It happens often in two income household that one will take a break from working.