Culinary School Degree?!? what are you thinking! If you go to burger king with that you'll probably make healthy food out of those burgers!!! thats not what people want...

Maybe it's not that you aren't qualified. Maybe it's your personality or the background check.

@14- No, he has a job OR doesn't. Not both. See how that works? FML really needs to work on this site if it changes placement of comments after making you wait to submit, then doesn't allow you to delete and try again.

Maybe you should go out of the area...

Chin up, something will come along.

OP, if you're overqualified you won't get the job. Just like being underqualified (sp?). Keep on trying!

Wow, it is really easy for people whose parents still pay their bills to judge others who are out there trying to make their own way. Reminds me of when my husband's college roommate (whose place I was staying at one night because I had a job interview in their town) told me after I bombed an interview thanks to being kept up all night by him banging some ****'s head against his bedroom wall that he had never had to go on a job interview because he was so smart and highly educated... oh yeah, and never worked anywhere that his dad wasn't an executive.

Doesn't mean you suck, it just means they can't afford you. That's all. That is why so many companys are letting go people, because theyre too high paid.

you have a culinary degree, thats why

Why is everyone here (in exception to a few people) so angsty? Grr! Everyone chill out! Sure the OP has a commen problem (being unemployed, looking for a gig) but honestly doesn't that count as his life being f*cked?! I mean he can't get by on good looks. People have to make $.