My husband has 2 degrees. A Bachelor's in Business Management and also an architectural degree. And he's not using either. When he graduated there was a lot of architecture grads and he couldn't get a job in that and was unwilling to move away from his family. His business degree came in handy when he went to work for local government at a waste water plant but only for the piece of paper, not because they wanted a manager.

 

He did make it to plant manager at some point but some guy a level higher came in and made his life a living hell so much so that my husband finally left and went to another plant in another county. Even though he had 15 years experience and management under his belt plus his degree he had to start at just above entry level and gets paid less than everyone there who works the same position but has been there longer, none of whom have a degree or management experience. He was recently passed over for management for a guy who only got it because he's a "yes" man even though he was the biggest known slacker of all the operators there. My husband was pretty depressed about that. But what can you do?

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