applying for $20K-$40K jobs, it just scares them. I feel the same way. I have an electrical engineering and computer science degree and although I'm not unemployed I am underemployed and it is very frustrating. I'm stuck making under $30K/year with two engineering degrees... I'm 39 and I've been unemployed for 2 years. I have a BS and a shiny new MS in Project Management. I've been told to my face that I don't have enough experience for a entry level job in that field. Since when does an ENTRY LEVEL job mean having 3~5 years experience ? Well, okay. I don't mind starting at a lower position and working my way up. Then I was told that I was OVER QUALIFIED for a lower position job at 23 other opportunities. (No, I'm not making that number up.) This went on for so long, that now I'm being told that I flatly WILL NOT be hired because I've been out of work for so long (over 6 months is an awful short amount of time.) Now I have tens of thousands of dollars of school debt that I can't pay that only goes up by leaps and bounds when I apply for each forbearance. I now owe 40% extra on the principal that I'll never pay because I cant get hired. What the hell am I supposed to do ? I've applied for jobs from my field all the way down to burger flipping. The low jobs wont touch me