When will the job market pick up again? Economists shrug their shoulders. Maybe by next summer—maybe. Until then, most workers have little choice but to stick with their current jobs, even though chances are they’re overworked, underpaid, and all in all unhappy. If you’re one of the unfortunate millions currently unemployed, the task of finding a job is downright daunting, especially because some employers make it a policy to only hire people who already have jobs—figuring that if they’ve survived layoffs so far, they have to be standout performers.