You may even wish to make a certain "tongue in cheek" point or two to prospective employers or clients about some of these advantages:

• You were educated when people could read AND write. (By many reports, today's average public high school senior has a vocabulary of 10,000 words as compared with high school seniors of your generation when your peers sported an average vocabulary of 25,000 words.)
• You do not begin most sentences with the word "like."
• You are not tattooed and have not pierced your tongue or any other sensitive body part.
• You get to work on time each morning because employers can count on the fact that you were not likely to be out partying the night before since you are usually asleep by 9!
• You have no sick kids at home from whom to catch the measles, mumps or chicken pox.
• During a behavioral interview you may, at long last, have some credible past behaviors that really will predict future performance.
• Being overqualified might logically suggest that your prospective employer will get "more for their money" if they hire you.
• You have overcome the need to exaggerate. Your credentials, for better or worse, speak for themselves.
• You don't have hidden agendas. The simple truth is that you may need and want to work.
• You may have been with one firm for a very long time and some prospective employer may choose to view this as a liability… but your previous employer has been acquired and reacquired so often that you can legitimately claim you have worked for several companies without ever changing your parking spot!
• Along the same lines, it is legitimate to claim that it is far more likely you will be around in 5 years than their company will be… at least in its present state.
• At long last, you understand company politics AND you know how to keep your mouth shut.
• You do not have to be home at any particular time. You are – finally – free.

And now, a few sentences about health care spending. From $27 billion in 1960, health care spending grew to $1.4 trillion by 2001. National health-care expenditures are projected to reach $3.1 trillion in 2012, growing at an average rate of 7.3 percent. As a percentage of GDP, health-care spending is projected to reach 17.7 percent by 2012. By comparison, health-care spending in Canada is 9.6 percent of GDP, 7.8 percent in Japan and 7.7 percent in England. Is it possible that the high costs of health care are one of the reasons that we outsource work to other countries? Can you think of a few obvious solutions for this national dilemma?

Attention Benefit Professionals. Here's a hot new book on the subject of U.S. health care - "Apart at the Seams" by Charles Morris."