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3 Degrees to Poverty : BA + MA + MA = Permanent Unemployment = Poverty

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     Why don't I have a job? Why, oh, why? I'm a good worker. I have some good experience. I make good cookies and like bringing them to work. I have some excellent qualifications - I have three college degrees! All of them are in education: a Bachelor's in English (1985), a Masters in History (2008) and a Masters in Education (2015). I worked hard for those degrees. I'll be in debt for student loans for the next 30+ years on account of those degrees. And the job I have now - this little tiny under-paid barely part-time hours per week job I have now, doesn't use any of the knowledge I've accumulated over the past 30-something years working in the field of Education. This job I have now uses the typing skills I learned as a sophomore in high school. And I'm quite glad to have this job, even though I complain about it, now & then. If I didn't have it I would be living out of my car and dumpster diving for my meals, and that's a fact. I stumbled i