You gotta fake it to make it..

My new job has completed humbled me. With a downturn of events in my life I have had to accept a job for which I am rather over qualified, as the jobs for which I am most suited also think that I am over qualified (I can't even explain that). Having to make copies for people who I should be supervising, or completing tasks that are easy on my cognitive capabilities has left me EAGER...just a tad... but mindful that no matter my experiences or status in life or my education nothing is guaranteed. Who would have thought that 10 years after university, after ten years plus of work experience I would be "undesirable" to some pompous H.R. fart??

I don't know how people arrive at the conclusions they do, but hiring anyone with my pedigree and references would be an excellent choice. Instead it is seen as a potential loss because 1) I require more salary and benefits to start than someone less educated and less experienced, 2) I may, in the future, require an increase for all my experience and education and 3) I may flee the company in 6 months to a year to put my education and experience to better use, and receive a better salary and benefits package (its all about the benefits!)  BUT WAIT, aren't these qualities true for any potential candidate? Why wouldn't you want someone more educated, experienced, ambitious with the potential to excel? To hire against these qualities purposely would suggest that the people in the HR department/management are idiotic and incapable of effectively running a company. It is a backward way of thinking that is helping to keep young educated people without a job, or underemployed and feeling desolate.

[PAUSE, RE-READ PREVIOUS STATEMENTS FOR CONNECTIVITY] scratch that first sentence.....I have yet to be achieve a state humility. How can I? I'm trying. I grin and bare it, act as professionally as I can. Give 1000 where 100 is requested, but its so damn hard. I was taught, and have experienced that if you work hard, earn the respect of your supervisors you move forward, you're rewarded with more responsibility, status on the job and more money....and a better benefits package ( did i mention how important benefits are?) Now, currently for all my years of hard work I HAVE TO START ALL OVER. More ass kissing, more sucking up, more happy hours that are boring and uncomfortable as hell, more proving your value for a job that pays 65% less than what I used to make (yeah, i did the math, I guess it did come in handy Mr. McIntosh)

Someone suggested to me that I should delete certain parts of my resume to make it more "marketable" and for a minute I considered it.... because I am 65% more in debt...lol....then I thought, shouldn't it be the other way around? Shouldn't I somehow try to find a way to make me sound more experienced and filled with more potential than I really am??? See? BACKWARD ASS THINKING!!! 

So no, I am not humbled...I'm grinning and baring it.