The woman who cleans the office where I work is from Eastern Europe. She is a licensed vet in her country and had her own practice but can’t get accredited here. Very smart, determined, hard-working. Entrepreneurial enough to start her own cleaning business that now services several office buildings and employs a number of people (all LEGAL immigrants). I’m trying to figure out how to make friends with her because we are kindred spirits, but she works until 1 in the morning so socializing is difficult.
This is about credentialed people protecting their turf. In many fields, like psychologists you cant move from one state to another without a hassle beyond belief.
All the docs I know call their degrees and licenses “Union Cards”