[JohnSmithee]

"So the idea of getting a "hamburger flipper" job with graduate degrees and decades of senior management experience is just some kind of urban legend: You can't get hired for those jobs with all those qualifications."

Simple, just don't put those qualifications on your resume. Problem solved.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Simple, just don't put those qualifications on your resume. Problem solved.

Hardly. When you've only had high level professional jobs for your entire career, it's not so easy just to leave something out. It'd be a matter of leaving everything out. It wouldn't be so easy explaining the 23 year gap in employment since grad school. Or perhaps you recommend I try identity theft as a part of my job hunt?