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* ''Film/LastChristmas'': Katarina's father was a lawyer back in Croatia, but his law degree is considered useless in the U.K., forcing him to work as a taxi driver instead.
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Sadly, this is to an extent TruthInTelevision; professionals migrating to another country often find it difficult to use their native accreditation to keep doing their jobs. Not to mention that law degrees usually have the unfortunate consequence that, apart from being country-specific, they're often ''state-specific''. But do note that within [[UsefulNotes/TheCommonLaw Common Law countries]] this is less of a problem, as the basics are either the same or based on similar principles and it is actually relatively easy to transfer.
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Sadly, this is to an extent TruthInTelevision; professionals migrating to another country often find it difficult to use their native accreditation to keep doing their jobs. Not to mention that law degrees usually have the unfortunate consequence that, apart from being country-specific, they're often ''state-specific''. But do note that within [[UsefulNotes/TheCommonLaw Common Law countries]] this is less of a problem, as the basics are either the same or based on similar principles and it is actually relatively easy to transfer.
transfer. Also, it's not so much that the degrees themselves are state/province-specific, but rather licenses to practice.
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* ''[[ComicBook/SunnySeries Sunny Side Up]]'': Buzz's father, a Cuban immigrant, was a chemist in Cuba before he left during the Cuban Revolution. In the US since he has no papers, he's the groundskeeper for Pine Palms instead.
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* An inversion in ''[[Literature/NightWatchSeries Last Watch]]''. Anton goes to Samarkand, UsefulNotes/{{Uzbekistan}}, and gets into a taxi driven by an elderly Uzbek who speaks Russian without an accent. Typical to an elderly Eastern man, the taxi driver has many deep thoughts that Anton initially assumes to be typical Eastern wisdom. However, the driver reveals that he has a Ph.D. in Psychology which he earned in Moscow. Apparently, there's no demand for a shrink in Uzbekistan, so he drives a cab instead.
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* An inversion in In ''[[Literature/NightWatchSeries Last Watch]]''. Watch]]'', Anton goes to Samarkand, UsefulNotes/{{Uzbekistan}}, and gets into a taxi driven by an elderly Uzbek who speaks Russian without an accent. Typical to an elderly Eastern man, the taxi driver has many deep thoughts that Anton initially assumes to be typical Eastern wisdom. However, the driver reveals that he has a Ph.D. in Psychology which he earned in Moscow. Apparently, there's no demand for a shrink in Uzbekistan, so he drives a cab instead.
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* In ''Literature/ThirteenAndAHalfLivesOfCaptainBluebear'', Bluebear has finished the super-elite school of Professor Nachtigaller [[EliteSchoolMeansEliteBrain where knowledge is literally poured into one's head in the form of intellect bacteria]] and has a telepathic connection to Nachtigaller's ''Lexicon'' full of EncyclopaedicKnowledge of just about everything in Zamonia. However, in city-state Atlantis, where the very complicated education system doesn't recognize any degrees received abroad (the only option to bypass it is to prove [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections you are related to the ruling species]]), Bluebear is forced to work a number of menial jobs until he finds his calling as a "lie gladiator".
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* In ''Literature/ThirteenAndAHalfLivesOfCaptainBluebear'', ''Literature/TheThirteenAndAHalfLivesOfCaptainBluebear'', Bluebear has finished the super-elite school of Professor Nachtigaller [[EliteSchoolMeansEliteBrain where knowledge is literally poured into one's head in the form of intellect bacteria]] and has a telepathic connection to Nachtigaller's ''Lexicon'' full of EncyclopaedicKnowledge of just about everything in Zamonia. However, in city-state Atlantis, where the very complicated education system doesn't recognize any degrees received abroad (the only option to bypass it is to prove [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections you are related to the ruling species]]), Bluebear is forced to work a number of menial jobs until he finds his calling as a "lie gladiator".Congladiator.
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* In the Dolphin Diaries books, the ship's cook and chief engineer was apparently a top-notch engineer in China, but didn't speak English very well and could only find menial work as a cook in the US.
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* In ''Literature/ThirteenAndAHalfLivesOfCaptainBluebear'', Bluebear has finished the super-elite school of Professor Nachtigaller [[EliteSchoolMeansEliteBrain where knowledge is literally poured into one's head in the form of intellect bacteria]] and has a telepathic connection to Nachtigaller's ''Lexicon'' full of EncyclopaedicKnowledge of just about everything in Zamonia. However, in city-state Atlantis, where the very complicated education system doesn't recognize any degrees received abroad (the only option to bypass it is to prove [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections you are related to the ruling species]]), Bluebear is forced to work a number of menial jobs until he finds his calling as a "lie gladiator".
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* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'': according to dialogue in ''VideoGame/PokerNightAtTheInventory'', Heavy Weapons Guy has a [=PhD=]...in Russian Literature. However, he's actually very happy with his current job because it allows him to shoot people with a very big gun; apparently, Russian Literature is just what he studied because what the hell (and the supplemental comics strongly implied that he comes from a politically sensitive background that made it impossible to get any other degree). His poor English is implied to just be a lack of fluency; in the Russian version of the game, his speech takes a much more sophisticated, educated tone. When asked whether his education comes in handy during his line of work, he replies "More than you think."
* In ''VideoGame/{{Tropico}}'', your loyal, boot-licking lackey Penultimo apparently got his degree at the University of Atlantis, an (obviously) fictional college (which may explain his 5 spelling errors...in ''[[EpicFail spelling his own name]]'').
* In ''VideoGame/{{Tropico}}'', your loyal, boot-licking lackey Penultimo apparently got his degree at the University of Atlantis, an (obviously) fictional college (which may explain his 5 spelling errors...in ''[[EpicFail spelling his own name]]'').
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* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'': according to dialogue in ''VideoGame/PokerNightAtTheInventory'', Heavy Weapons Guy has a [=PhD=]... in Russian Literature. However, he's actually very happy with his current job because it allows him to shoot people with a very big gun; apparently, Russian Literature is just what he studied because what the hell (and the supplemental comics strongly implied that he comes from a politically sensitive background that made it impossible to get any other degree). His poor English is implied to just be a lack of fluency; in the Russian version of the game, his speech takes a much more sophisticated, educated tone. When asked whether his education comes in handy during his line of work, he replies "More than you think."
* In ''VideoGame/{{Tropico}}'', your loyal, boot-licking lackey Penultimo apparently got his degree at the University of Atlantis, an (obviously) fictional college (which may explain his 5 spelling errors... in ''[[EpicFail spelling his own name]]'').
* In ''VideoGame/{{Tropico}}'', your loyal, boot-licking lackey Penultimo apparently got his degree at the University of Atlantis, an (obviously) fictional college (which may explain his 5 spelling errors... in ''[[EpicFail spelling his own name]]'').
