> > After three months of unemployment [...]
>
> Three months is because there are employment
>problems in your area, because it's a nationwide
>problem (Greenspan said that recession is over,
>but what's the real situation as far as
>employment is concerned) or just because it took
>that time to find the job you liked most?

It's a mixture of the first two. Currently unemployment nationwide is at its highest level in about a decade or so, and the unemployment rate in Colorado is higher than the national average. The tech sector in particular (which is the general field I work in) was hit really hard in the last year, and the Denver area (where I live) had an very high number of tech companies before the crash. It certainly has little to do with waiting for the "right" job. Mostly it was waiting for "a" job that would pay all the bills.

>
> This question is due to the fact that I'm
>thinking to move either in France or in the USA
>(not now, but maybe in two or three years), so
>I'm also collecting people's opinion about
>employment problems.

Well, if you're looking at moving in a few years, look again in a few years. Things will most likely be very different. Our economy is very robust and tends to grow over the long term. Short term trends, however, can go in either direction. We had about a decade of uninterrupted growth leading up to this current recession, which appears to have lasted less than a year--and some economists are now debating whether we ever really *were* in a recession. Personally, I don't put much stock in economists (considering exactly zero of them saw this coming in the first place--I think psychics have a better track record than economists sometimes) but it is true that our economy today is very likely not what it will be like in two or three years. Whether it will be better or worse in two or three years is open to debate.

Anyway, don't move to France. They're all a bunch of snooty communists there.

>
> > It's a paycut, but still plenty of money.
>
> I'm missing the exact meaning for 'paycut'
>(maybe you get only part of what would be the
>payment for that job?).

It means I'm getting paid less currently then I was at my last job.

-- Dave