At McSweeney’s: “A GREAT JOB OPPORTUNITY!” (Funnier/sadder if you’re jobless right now.)
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A Laugh for the Jobseeker
By Emily Colette Wilkinson posted at 2:53 pm on April 21, 2010 1
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Emily Colette Wilkinson is a staff writer for The Millions living in Virginia. She is a winner of the Virginia Quarterly's Young Reviewers Contest and has a doctorate from Stanford. Her writing has appeared in The Washington Times, In Character, VQR, Arts & Letters Daily, and The Daily Dish.
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at 3:51 pm on April 21, 2010
Not Terribly Different from some real media job listings I’ve seen that want 1 to have the skills of 3 or 4. Some are desperate enough to apply anyway.