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First of all you should know that I have 5 degrees including advanced degrees in electrical engineering. Armed with my education and 25 years experience in various facets of the disipline, I went to an interview at ... Radio Shack. Why Radio Shack ? Because. after 8 months of unemployment and facing losing EVERYTHING I had worked for in those 25 years, I was willing to do ANY job. The Radio Shack job was at the store manager level and with commission could pay as high as $70,000 annually. I figured, well I was a grocery store manager during my early college days (yes, I did WORK my way through college) so I have managerial experience and my many years in electronics must certainly be an asset. So i thought that I would be a shoe-in for the job.

The district manager would conducted the interview was very nice ... and very candid. He said that his company, and as he knew, other like companies were looking for "career minded candidates" (his words) and are especially NOT hiring laid off high tech workers. I asked why, when people like myself are very well qualified to the job. He said that I must know that the company is fully aware that when the economy turns around all the high tech workers will leave their company and return to high tech. He also said the his company could not afford the time or money to train those "temporary" employees. He also said that we, the laid off high tech workers should use the unemployment money to better their education and "wait out the storm ... after all you earned it" (his words again)

That is the way it is John ... Krispy Creme is NOT going to hire people like myself who are vastly over-qualified. I know because I tried. Radio Shack was not my only effort at entering employment outside of my field. Sure one could lie on a resume, BUT when the hiring manager is seated across from you in a face to face interview, you are not going to be able to hide your education and that manager is going to know in a hot minute that you are OUT OF PLACE and you WILL NOT get the job.

The district manager would conducted = The district manager who conducted

Still on my first cup of coffee

I don't disagree.However,these people-the ones not hiring folks such as yourself-are deluding themselves if they think the economy,even when it turns around,will be anything like the house o' cards clinton roaring nineties.So,they SHOULD take a chance but they are too ignorant to do so.

First of all you should know that I have 5 degrees including advanced degrees in electrical engineering. Armed with my education and 25 years experience in various facets of the disipline, I went to an interview at ... Radio Shack. Why Radio Shack ? Because. after 8 months of unemployment and facing losing EVERYTHING I had worked for in those 25 years, I was willing to do ANY job....

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They's be nuts to hire you for that job. You know it. I know it. Any honest person with half a brain knows it.

As far as this Krispy Kreme bull crap, if I were a hiring manager I'd look for a high school graduate who was not particularly college material. I want somebody decently bright with a pleasant disposition who is going to believe he has hit life's jackpot delivering donuts. It will be worth investing in training him because he'll stay there forever and be happy. I'm going to firgure a 140 IQ engineer makes a damned good engineer but will be too unchallenged and bored fooling with donuts. I'll want somebody with about 110-115 IQ with limited education. The hiring interviewer will have been told to do that in the industrial or personnel psychology courses he took.

Depending upon your ability, you may even be overqualified for many technical and engineering jobs requiring marginal engineers at marginal salaries. In this market with hundreds os resumes comng in for each newspaper ad, employers can afford to be choosey. With five degrees, if you are good, you are going to have a problem. Much of the work at high levels is not being done here, or is being shipped out of the country.

Half the people on this thread have been lucky, are life-inexperienced, are wound up on cliches, or are posting to beat their own drum and brag about how clever they are.