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    flavorflav: I recently applied for a PR job -- in Norfolk, Va., which makes Cincinnati look like Rome -- that asked me to supply "a current walk-on-water packet.... more »
    MrInBetween: What a prize! And the first runner-up gets to remove the bolts from this guy's neck. more »
    sweetpickles: I can't wait until we all have to compete for the remaining jobs left at the U.S. Postal Service. On TeeVee! more »
    badasscat: Is there any kind of hell other than PR hell? more »
    TheBusinessGuy: Other magazines should adopt this Billboard model. If I send a check to Vogue, someone can write how fabu I look. Seriously, what I'm not clear abou... more »
    evan7257: I interned for Evan Smith at Texas Monthly, and now I'm at law school in NYC. Worst move I ever made. #journalismism more »
    Trai_Dep: I smell fraud, since the Billboard position doesn't mention Quaaludes, Jack Daniels or 14-year-old nymphets using Road Names featuring "i"s with heart... more »
    TableNein: I like how Gawker's image of heaven is an escalator to mold spores. Edit: Journalism heaven, that is. I thought it was a walkup apartment with a king... more »
    raincoaster: Are You Kidding Me? I'd kill for that job. I'm serious. What an incredible job that must be. Think of the stories! Sure, it'll kill your soul. But r... more »
    hot_kachina: The Texecutions beat - it's what you make of it! Steve Blow, longtime columnist for The Dallas Morning News, has long had a series listing what the co... more »
    naugahydeinplainsight: I could not believe that while Texas continues to execute people, some papers there do not run anything -- staff or wires -- when it does. Whether peo... more »
    CumaeanSibyl: Whoever keeps getting sent to write special reports on Detroit. Trying to draw some sort of uplifting moral conclusion is so awful that they all just ... more »
    ZiggyStardust: Norm MacDonald once said the worst job in America wass "assistant crackwhore." The newsroom equivalent has to do with being on the copydesk, obviously... more »
    notsofresh: Not a beat, really, but my ex once applied for a job "editing" rubber stamps. Like, those stamps people have made so they don't have to write the same... more »
    Spirit Fingers: I'm going with whoever edits the gangly meanderings that take place in the local Pennysaver. Because I can't see anything more inclined to make someon... more »
  • #jobsinhell

    Survivor: Local Cincinnati PR Firm

    Are you willing to do absolutely anything and go through three weeks of "PR Hell" to land a basement-level gig at a PR firm in god damn Cincinnati? Sure, because you have no other choice, economically! PR: Classy, always. [Adfreak]
  • #media

    Heaven and Hell in Journalism Jobs

    Media jobs used to be cushy; nowadays, you can't even land a media job, and if you do, it sucks. But six-figure journalism salaries still exist! As do terrible, fly-by-night hellholes (Billboard). We've found the best and the worst. More »
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    What's the Worst Beat in American Journalism?

    The Times today profiles Michael Graczyk, an AP reporter whose beat is Texas executions. He's watched hundreds of people die. Sounds terrible. But is it the worst possible beat? Help us find out! More »
  • #jobsinhell

    Edit Now. Pay Later Never.

    Buck up, underemployed aspiring media employees who are not celebuspawn: We've found you yet another opportunity for indentured servitude masquerading as a "media job." How'd you like to be a real live Editor in Chief, eh? More »
  • #redstateslose

    Photo Essays of Our Time: People of Wal-Mart

    There's a line in a song: "All the freaky people make the beauty of the world." And then there's this: a blog taking photos of Wal-Mart patrons. Cruel? Yes. Hysterical? Absolutely. But fascinating. And somehow, art. More »
  • #recessionomics

    Well Maybe Working at the Wal-Mart Wouldn't Be So Bad

    The Way We Live Now: Still unemployed, why the fuck do you keep asking? Hamptons parking sticker theft can only keep us going for so long, ya know. If New York doesn't get a Wal-Mart soon, it's panic time. More »
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    'Westchester Is the Bestchester Is an Allegory of ...'

    Huzzah, the time has come for yet another "Awful Craigslist Media Job Ad of the New Depression." This one has a riddle! More »
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    Vapid Fauxcialites Seek Huge Sucker for 'Internship'

    Not only are there no real entry-level media jobs; even internship opportunities have come to this: "Do you watch The City, read Gawker and know the names of people like Julia Allison and Kristian Laliberté?" More »