1 | '''Basic Trope''': A person who had a high-paying/prestigious job in another country does menial work in the setting of the work. |
2 | * '''Straight''': Bob worked as a doctor in Troperistan, but works as a janitor in Troperia. |
3 | * '''Exaggerated''': |
4 | ** Bob was the CEO of a {{Fiction 500}} company based in Troperistan, but works as a lowly street sweeper in Troperia. |
5 | ** Bob has multiple [=PhDs=] from Troperistan but can only get work as a janitor in Troperia. |
6 | ** Bob was the CEO of a {{Fiction 500}} company and has multiple [=PhDs=] from Troperistan but couldn't even find a single job in Troperia. |
7 | * '''Downplayed''': Bob worked as a doctor in Troperistan, but can only find work as a medical assistant in Troperia. |
8 | ** Bob needs to retake a residency as his education and experience are considered equivalent to a medical school graduate. Still an annoying set back but one he would get past in a few years. |
9 | * '''Justified''': |
10 | ** Bob's Troperistanian qualifications and certificates aren't recognized by Troperian hospitals for various reasons. |
11 | ** Bob doesn't speak Troperian very well, if at all. |
12 | ** Employers suspect that diploma mills may be using 'foreign' degrees as a cover. |
13 | ** Troperia has a shortage of doctors and government policy there is to hire native-born Troperian students first. |
14 | ** Or, conversely, Troperia has too ''many'' doctors and as such there just isn't room for Bob. |
15 | ** The quality of medical training (or education in general) in Troperistan is considered sub-par by Troperian standards, so Bob's qualifications and experience carry little weight with recruiters. |
16 | ** Troperia and Troperistan are currently at war, and both countries are very wary of potential infiltrators. |
17 | * '''Inverted''': |
18 | ** Bob was a lowly janitor in Troperistan, but when he arrives in Troperia, he's offered a job as a doctor. |
19 | ** Justified Inversion: Troperistan is known for its better education quality than Troperia, where Troperistani Diploma mills equate to Troperia's most prestigious university. |
20 | * '''Subverted''': |
21 | ** The chief of medicine at the hospital where Bob is applying to work acts as if he's going to reject Bob, but hires him. |
22 | ** It isn't so much that his degree is from Troperistan but that his university is a known [[PhonyDegree diploma mill]]. Carol's degree from [[ArtifactTitle Troperian Plantation University]] is accepted. |
23 | * '''Double Subverted''': |
24 | ** The chief of medicine at the hospital where Bob is applying to work acts as if he's going to reject Bob, but hires him... as a janitor. |
25 | ** It's the [[ShoddyKnockoffProduct Tro]]'''[[ShoddyKnockoffProduct pp]]'''[[ShoddyKnockoffProduct eristan University of medicine]] that is the known diploma mill, not the Troperistan University of Medicine where Bob graduated |
26 | * '''Parodied''': All the janitors at the hospital have prestigious medical degrees from foreign countries. |
27 | * '''Zig Zagged''': Bob was a doctor in Troperistan, but can only find menial work as a janitor in Troperia. Alice, on the other hand, was a short-order cook from Troperistan who got a high-paying systems analyst job in Troperia. Charlie, a third immigrant from Troperistan, worked with Bob at their old hospital, and fills a similar job as a surgeon in Troperia. |
28 | ** [[FishOutOfTemporalWater Bob came from Troperia's past.]] His medical knowledge is [[ScienceMarchesOn outdated in some respects]] and would be considered a hilariously dangerous quack. However he finds a high paying prestigious job as a world class history professor as he [[FutureImperfect recognizes where their current history got it wrong]] [[HaveAGayOldTime due to language]] [[GetTheeToANunnery drift]], record corruption and context losses. Bob has mixed feelings about this. |
29 | * '''Averted''': Bob, a doctor from Troperistan, finds a similar job as a doctor in Troperia. |
30 | * '''Enforced''': |
31 | ** In a time of widespread xenophobia, the writers can't write a competent and ethically scrupulous foreign character without mass backlash. |
32 | ** Troperistan commissioned this work to curb its BrainDrain by vilifying Troperia. |
33 | * '''Lampshaded''': "I had ''dignified'' work back home!" |
34 | * '''Invoked''': "Hey, let's ask Bob the janitor. I'll bet he was a doctor back in Troperistan." |
35 | * '''Exploited''': Bob the janitor may not be officially recognized as a doctor, but Bob still has the skills of a doctor and people go to see him instead of 'real' doctors because he gives cheap 'advice' and they give him monetary 'gifts'. [[BlatantLies Totally not practicing medicine without a license at all.]] |
36 | * '''Defied''': |
37 | ** Bob goes to medical school in Troperia at the first opportunity so that he can keep up his rewarding career. |
38 | ** Troperistan and Troperia sign an agreement where each country's medical certification are recognized by the other as having equal validity. |
39 | ** Bob decides to [[BackAlleyDoctor use his skills for those who want things done off the books or procedures not normally allowed.]] |
40 | * '''Discussed''': Bob asks InhumanResources director Dan [[CouldSayItBut if hospitals in Troperia will honour qualifications earned in Troperistan]]. |
41 | * '''Conversed''': "This show sure doesn't paint a picture of an immigrant-friendly society." |
42 | * '''Implied''': Bob is a very intelligent immigrant janitor who occasionally makes bitter comments about being meant for better things. |
43 | * '''Deconstructed''': Bob is extremely depressed because his talents are being wasted on menial work. |
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45 | Back in [[{{The Old Country}} old country]] I was highly paid computer engineer! Now, I guide people back to WorthlessForeignDegree. |
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