Kuala Lampur, Nov. 28 -- About two million Malaysians are employed below their qualified station. According to the department of statistics earlier this month.

Underemployed, overeducated, disrespected or not given their worth. Various ways to call it. Whichever way referred to they constitute 37 per cent - more than a third - of the tertiary educated employed in the Malaysian economy.

Like the digital animation graduate working for a small print shop in Kluang, helping elderly aunts choose fonts for their daughters and sons' kenduri invitation cards.

It's soul-crushing to spend years trained in advanced animation software, termed promising by instructors, and then end up in the back of a sub-rented office unit in a derelict shop-lot b...