Note any field $k$ is a $1$-dimensional vector space over itself using the operation $c\cdot v = cv$. Now let $k$ be a field equipped with an injective, but not surjective, ring homomorphism $f\colon k \to k$. Now $k$ is also a vector space using the operation $c\cdot v = f(c)v$. As $f$ is not surjective take $x \in k$ outside the image, then $\{1, x\}$ is linearly independent, for otherwise we would have
$$0 = a\cdot 1 + b\cdot x = f(a) + f(b)x$$
and so either $b = 0$, implying $f(a) = 0$, hence $a = 0$ by injectivity, or $b \neq 0$ and $x = f(-\frac{a}{b})$, contradicting our assumption that $x$ is not in the image. So with this new scalar multiplication $k$ has dimension at least $2$.
For an example of a field $k$ with such a map $f$ how about the field $k = \mathbb R(x_1, x_2, \ldots)$ of rational polynomials in countably many variables and $f$ defined by $f(x_i) = x_{i + 1}$ for all $i$.