Oh, how familiar:
Communications Graduate: “I want to be a journalist for the New York Times, interviewing the president, living in a Greenwich Village apartment and eating out at cool restaurants.”
Wizened Old Journalist: “How about a job writing about pork belly futures for a trade magazine in Kansas?”
And the punch line is not to be missed. Just click on the square below. (Hat-tip to “BrooklynLee” and xtranormal):
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The Daily Magnet · December 21, 2010 at 4:16 PM
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The Daily Magnet · December 21, 2010 at 4:18 PM
Hang on…I can do better – is this for grades?
Lol, so hilarious – but the cynical bear forgot about the rapid staff turnover in those ideal jobs as the final kick in the pants, of course you don't have to work that hard here for those positions though. The NYT is probably different in many ways to the Oz MSM industry, I would imagine – like they may actually publish news from time to time.
Mr Denmore – passion is its own reward(just as well too)…