Aaron Chapman describes the humiliation of job hunting while overqualified, getting rejected repeatedly, and the moment his debit card declined at a gas station with his tank nearly empty. His wife gave him a coupon for free diapers.
$10 an hour
Hull Landscape Rock
And I couldn't find work to save my life. Everywhere I applied, I was overqualified. Overqualified, overqualified. And then it got to a point where we were so broke that my wife gave me a coupon for free diapers as I'm walking out the door to go apply for a 10 an hour truck driving job to Hull Landscape Rock. And I got there and again I got the exact same response, this BS word, overqualified. And I didn't understand. How can you be overqualified for something you the good at it, you're not. You can either do the job or you can't. I didn't understand it. But so as I'm leaving there wiping tears, I get in my truck, I start up to drive away. I've got my coupon to go to the store, get those diapers. My gas light comes onto my truck and I'd not driven that truck very far on the gas light to know how far you can get. So I found the closest grocery store that had a gas station on the corner. So I pulled up to a pump, I had a debit card. That's all I had. I said a quick prayer, I swiped my debit card and I got a decline for having an overdrawn account.
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