Retail not hiring people like you before the downturn as well. Your resume now signals "white collar upper-middle class" and retail will assume: - You'll stil

Retail not hiring people like you before the downturn as well. Your resume now signals "white collar upper-middle class" and retail will assume: - You'll still be looking for work when you join - You can't/won't work hard All my friends with PhDs in non-marketable specialties have faced this problem for a decade.