Occupational Slumming


taking a job that is beneath a person’s education or skill level as a means of retreat from adult responsibilities and/or avoiding possible failure in one’s true occupation.
although he was trained to be an architect, hank took a job at burger king instead because he didn’t believe he’d be able to design a building that anyone would be interested in financing. his parents were disappointed by hank’s obvious occupational slumming.

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