{"id":5880,"date":"2011-08-11T16:16:03","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T20:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/watchwomanonthewall\/?p=5880"},"modified":"2011-08-11T16:16:03","modified_gmt":"2011-08-11T20:16:03","slug":"video-55-year-old-homeless-man-carries-2-masters-degrees-by-maurice-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/2011\/08\/video-55-year-old-homeless-man-carries-2-masters-degrees-by-maurice-johnson.html","title":{"rendered":"Video &#8211; 55 year old Homeless Man carries 2 Masters Degrees ( by Maurice Johnson )"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>From The Blaze:<\/strong> \u00a0Though he has apparently declined part-time jobs in other cities due to financial and travel constraints, this overqualified man has allegedly been without employment since last November. Currently, he resides in a homeless shelter, describing his current situation as \u201cjust simply bad luck.\u201d In terms of his shelter experience, he says it is one he hopes to never have to repeat in his life.\u00a0Below, watch him describe what he has gone through in a YouTube interview:<\/p>\n<p>Time\u2019s NewsFeed\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/newsfeed.time.com\/2011\/08\/11\/viral-video-homeless-man-has-three-degrees-and-cant-find-a-job\/\" target=\"_blank\">summarizes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Johnson spent all of his savings and sold all of his earthly belongings, including his car, to prevent foreclosure on his parents\u2019 house in Cleveland, Ohio so that his mother with Alzheimer\u2018s wouldn\u2019t have to move.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThey paid my way through school,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cIf it\u2019s going to take ten years, I\u2019m going to make their final years safe and comfortable.\u201d He then moved to Boston expecting to take a job he had been offered, but found out when he got there that it had been given away.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&lt; Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/stories\/mee-the-brainiac-homeless-man-with-a-ph-d-that-cant-find-a-job\/\">http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/stories\/mee-the-brainiac-homeless-man-with-a-ph-d-that-cant-find-a-job\/<\/a>\u00a0&gt;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"55 year old Homeless Man carries 2 Masters Degrees ( Maurice Johnson )\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8eNPAH46oI8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p><strong>From YouTube.com<\/strong>: 55 year old Maurice Johnston lives in Boston, by way of Cleveland. He has a Masters Degree in Plasma Physics from Dartmouth College, and a masters in Electrical Engineering and acoustics from Purdue University. He&#8217;s worked over 10 years at Lockheed Aerospace &amp; Aerodyne Research Corp. Maurice has taught in Science and physics, and took care of both his parents in their time of need. Maurice is very well spoken, (he sounds like Obama) and is very kind, so why is Maurice homeless&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>Maurice is referenced in the Boston Globe here:\u00a0<a title=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/mSFI0O\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/mSFI0O\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/mSFI0O<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Maurice has an in depth &#8220;LinkedIn&#8221; profile here:\u00a0<a title=\"http:\/\/linkd.in\/lK0bdJ\" href=\"http:\/\/linkd.in\/lK0bdJ\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/linkd.in\/lK0bdJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Maurice&#8217;s E-mail address is referenced in the video<\/p>\n<p>Hi and Thank You for taking the time to watch this video, my name is Danny McGlashing and I run the 60 Days channel here on youTube, I work part time as an all around volunteer in my community. I am currently working on 2 large projects, 1 of them can be followed at www.community-volunteer.org and should explain itself. The other is alot more in depth and for the time being I\u00b4ll just say we want to assist musicians, artists, writers, and up and coming actors\/perfprmers. The name of this project is United Street Artists or U.S.A for short, I can be contacted either on twitter @IKnowTheWayOut , on Facebook through this link:\u00a0<a title=\"http:\/\/on.fb.me\/kxuykS\" href=\"http:\/\/on.fb.me\/kxuykS\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/on.fb.me\/kxuykS<\/a>\u00a0or at Danny@community-volunteer.com<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for watching this video and please send Maurice all the support you can, preferably a job \ud83d\ude09 Danny <strong>(written on YouTube)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Blaze: \u00a0Though he has apparently declined part-time jobs in other cities due to financial and travel constraints, this overqualified man has allegedly been without employment since last November. Currently, he resides in a homeless shelter, describing his current situation as \u201cjust simply bad luck.\u201d In terms of his shelter experience, he says it&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":403,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[223,137,2200,131,167],"tags":[2205,2206,2203,2202,2207,2201,2204],"class_list":["post-5880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-education","category-jobless-homeless-are-they-bums","category-ohio","category-video","tag-boston-massachusetts","tag-cleveland-ohio","tag-dartmouth-college","tag-homeless","tag-lockheed-aerodyne","tag-maurice-johnson","tag-purdue-university"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Video - 55 year old Homeless Man carries 2 Masters Degrees ( by Maurice Johnson ) - Watchwoman on the Wall<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/2011\/08\/video-55-year-old-homeless-man-carries-2-masters-degrees-by-maurice-johnson.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Video - 55 year old Homeless Man carries 2 Masters Degrees ( by Maurice Johnson ) - Watchwoman on the Wall\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"From The Blaze: \u00a0Though he has apparently declined part-time jobs in other cities due to financial and travel constraints, this overqualified man has allegedly been without employment since last November. 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