My college education is paying off: I got an interview at a fast food place!

The sad thing is, this may not be just a joke. I got calls for interviews this week from a supermarket, a department store and now the fast food place. I have applied at all of these places before. At least once at the fast food place, three times at the department store and twice at the supermarket. All in the past year and a half since I lost my job. I never got a single call for an interview until now; two months after I completed my Associates Degree. So it may just be that none of these jobs that pay $8 an hour or less and offer little or no benefits wanted me until I had a degree. By the way I should also mention that super market promptly sent me a rejection letter the day after my interview and the department store, who promised to call and let me know either way by the end of the week, have not yet called five days later. So it seems you need a degree to work in low paying jobs and even then you have to be the creme of the educated crop.