Overqualified I am afraid is often code for "too old".
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I have been running my own business or operating as a freelancer for 20 years. During that time more than once I decided it was just too tough and tried to reenter the job market. I got the "overqualified" response often and it became very obvious what it meant.
- Brian Sullivan