Assume, for the nonce, that in any rational system of social life, someone with my education and accomplishments would be able -- again, in every single world/instance -- to secure baseline sufficiency employment. Whether the system was state control (report to local work board) or a healthy market with transparency and efficiency (file a reasonable number of applications, some in which the training and experience would be per se sufficient against the competition), a basic life -- again, not the life that the credentials might suggest, but the baseline -- would be possible.
The temptation then arises to fix precisely this flaw in things. To make things less corrupt, to allow for less caprice in matters affecting basic livelihoods. This is understandable, but an error.
Attain the position of minimal sufficiency and then attempt to do the transcendent (involving all aspects of being) work that you were born to do, and for which you came into the world.
The errors of the world should not determine the choice of the good.