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No Work Should Be Beneath You Today

In October 2007, Julie Evans, a Spokane finance professional, landed her dream job with a building- materials company. She worked as a controller, and took on information technology duties as well. A year later, the economy crumbled. Two years later, the company sold out to a large corporation. Evans saw her coveted information technology work assigned elsewhere. With all of the changes, the position was no longer a good fit, and she left the job in March 2010. Evans took time off but is back to work now in a temporary job, doing finance tasks for a service company in Spokane. She found the job through Accountemps, a placement agency for accounting professionals/ Rebecca Nappi , SR. More here . (SR photo/Dan Pelle: Friends Julie Evans, left, and Ginger Eldridge)

Question: If you lost your current job, would you be willing to do something to survive that you might have thought beneath you before the economic downturn?

* This story was originally published as a post from the blog "Huckleberries Online." Read all stories from this blog