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Are you listening world?!?!?
10/12/09
I love how only girls can get away with shit like that.
O-H?
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Like these girls, I'm from a state like Ohio, and yes, I did leave home after high school, but generally speaking I had a purpose for going wherever I went--college admission, then a job offer, another job, then grad school admission. I'm not saying this to brag--I'm making less than these girls--but I live in a mid-size city where I can live quite comfortably on what I make. And whenever I moved cities I had a vague idea of what I'd be doing there before I arrived, so I was never completely unmoored. High school classmates of mine have ended up in New York, but they got there *after* getting job offers.
I'm not saying "let them get jobs" as a person would say "let them eat cake"--I realize it's hard to get work right now--but it seems to me that with that in mind, they would have done well to stay put until they had some real prospects, or move to a cheaper city if they really wanted to chance it. Moving to NYC with Mary Tyler Moore dreams in 2009 just sounds insane. Did I say Mary Tyler Moore? Sorry, I meant Sex and the City. It's just a tv show, girls!
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One of the biggest websites in the world, the NYTimes, mentions that they are "thinking about" starting a blog, including what it will be called, and, on the day that the story runs, the blog does not seem to exist.
Not only that, but these journalism alum couldn't be bothered to even research that. Twintown.com is a guitar website and twintown.blogspot.com is also taken. Twintown.wordpress.com is taken by a squatter who probably wouldn't mind selling the address. All that took about 30 seconds of typing on my lunch break that these up-and-comers evidently are unable or unwilling to do.
Talk about wasted free publicity. This was a god-damned article on the internet. Why didn't they have a site up and running for the article to link to, thereby driving traffic?
(And yes, I know the answer is that they are lazy, unable to come up with a coherent life plan and/or otherwise unintelligent)
Talk about your wasted opportunity.
10/12/09
Sorry, I couldn't read the whole NYT article. I couldn't get past the blonde-bombshell-twin fantasy photos. I doubt if the NY would care if these women looked like Tom Friedman (mustache included).
General note for all under-30s: your life is going to suck, you'll never get paid what you're "worth", and your whole 20s will fly by like a bad sitcom flashback scene. Only when you hit your 40s will you finally realize that your college degree did not include any real-world experience and that the first person to have risked giving you a job was a saint. Until then, enjoy the ride and suck up life experiences like a sponge.
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this is not the case. many of my friends, as well as me, are stressed out with job searching. it's really disheartening to go on so many interviews, just to get rejected. it's not like we're asking for cushy jobs, i just want an entry level job. however, the economy is so bad, people that have worked for like 5 years are settling for entry level jobs that would've normally gone to college grads.
it sucks for everyone, and it makes me mad that these girls are being seen as poster children for recent college grads. go to hell, nyt.
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Also, the lipstick microphone concept is a real head-scratcher for me. The point is to have a way to tell the whole bar a guy you're with is being a jerk? Honey, that's what throwing-martinis-in-faces is for. I guess you're too old to have learned this from Dynasty.
Also, I believe there is a typo in the description of the roommate that works at the Blue Donkey. I don't think he wants to be a public artist. There's an extra letter in there.
10/12/09
It also seemed like there were some questions that needed to be asked that weren't addressed at all: do these girls realize that the jobs that they're trying to get pay less than a $43,000/year bartending gig? Or that if they want to write, they should be spending more of their copious free time writing for free instead of busking for business cards in the subway? Or that spending $39k in student loans to transfer to RUTGERS for a j-school education was a giant waste of money and not at all well-planned? Wouldn't THESE types of questions have made for a more interesting article than the one that we all just read? Why is the person that a) thought these girls were a good story idea and b) thought that this was the most relevant story she could get out of them still writing for the NYT?
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But good luck getting a TV show! If that fails, might I suggest the U.S. Army? I'm pretty sure they're hiring.
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But you're right. Calling them out for their looks is pointlessly cruel.
10/12/09
The "maybe we should have a blog" thing is just the first layer of WTF. There's absolutely no suggestion in the article that they're using their weird little experiences as writing/pitching fodder. The freelancers I know who write features would have gone home and written a funny, witty article about being part of a human installation at a museum. Did the Ohioans? And if they did, then why the hell didn't they think "oooh, NYT feature, must throw together a site immediately to host writing samples!" Because as of now, the article ends with the article. There is no deeper layer.
Maybe I'm a jaded, cynical wretch, but these girls are looking for something much closer to the reality TV/media personality/famous-for-being-famous side of things. Not particularly practical, even if they have somehow finagled free publicity via that reporter, and not particularly illuminating about being down and out during this recession.