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**Pharmadryg** · 10-14-2011, 05:28 PM

Here’s the other thing you have to look at: overqualification.

For example, I finished my bachelor's degree (in a field related to what I did in the Navy) and started on my master's before I got out.

While I was collecting unemployment, the amount I was getting was about the same as someone who grosses $9.30 an hour. I actually applied for a job in my field (albeit, on a lower level of responsibility and authority that I had attained as a First Class Petty Officer) that paid $11 an hour. I was told flat out within three minutes of the interview starting that I was overqualified.

Luckily, a week later, I interviewed for the job that I have now - I'm a federal civilian.

Bottom line, however, is that "humbling yourself" to take a job that you might have felt to be "beneath you" at one point is far easier said than done.

10-14-2011, 05:28 PM	#22
Pharmadryg Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 435 Senior Member	Here’s the other thing you have to look at: overqualification. For example, I finished my bachelor's degree (in a field related to what I did in the Navy) and started on my master's before I got out. While I was collecting unemployment, the amount I was getting was about the same as someone who grosses $9.30 an hour. I actually applied for a job in my field (albeit, on a lower level of responsibility and authority that I had attained as a First Class Petty Officer) that paid $11 an hour. I was told flat out within three minutes of the interview starting that I was overqualified. Luckily, a week later, I interviewed for the job that I have now - I'm a federal civilian. Bottom line, however, is that "humbling yourself" to take a job that you might have felt to be "beneath you" at one point is far easier said than done.
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