Kind of similar, but I have a friend who has not passed her licensing exam for teaching yet.  She has taken the exam 3 times and each time she fails by only one or two points.  It's frustrating her but she is also going to be a foreign language teacher and in Indiana at least it's the hardest teaching license to get.

At least she has a decent job in the mean time.  She is a translator at the traffic court so she is at least putting her Spanish to good use.