…for a 29-year-old marketing professional;
…for an MIT educated financial engineer;
…and, of course, for a pimp.
Charles Mudede—who writes about film, books, music, and his life in Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, the USA, and the UK for The Stranger—was born near a steel plant in Kwe Kwe, Zimbabwe. He has no memory... More by Charles Mudede
Pimpin’ ain’t easy!
Ha Ha Ha
Last night on the 6pm world news, a feature was on some Seattle woman who has lost her ‘marketing’ ‘online journalism’ something, some ‘necessary’-pays-pretty-well-job —
there’s the footage — she walking around her designer kitchen, talking on the cellphone, sitting at her sleek flatscreen monitor — woe is her *sob*
and then some writing guru-ess starts promoting her book about white-collar-ish unemployment (something Paul constant could find literary good/bad value in — can someone say, “fire him”)
Charles, I briefed over some The Economist mag last night. Cholera, soldiers.
Some people I guess are just tougher than others.
Maybe it’s because I spent several years working for a sales organization, but I would’t trust any organization that hired me off of my shirt.
How old is that t-shirt pic? Do people really still have juno e-mail addresses?
“She rejected a marketing assistant position paying about California’s $8-an-hour minimum wage, because the pay was too low.”
That’s your fucking problem right there. Take it and take a second job and take a third if you need it. Fucking entitled whiny shits.
@5 the pay may have been too low but the idea that the job you get is the last job of your life has to be thrown out. Always be looking.