“If you need a job and someone offers you a job, take the job. Working is better than not-working. Then, four years later, start your own media empire with someone you met on the Internet.”
I had a chat about working at a hyper-conservative think tank and thinking I looked good in men’s cargo shorts over at the Awl today.
Tags: interviews, the awl, the hoover institution, unemployment, work
When I told my grandfather I was interning at the Stanford Engineering Library, he gave me a dark look and said ominously: “Hoover.”
That was all he would say on the subject.
But you’re also going to tell us about being on Jeopardy!, right?
well, a video of Mallory on Jeopardy! is proving to be fairly elusive, so for now:
Picture and a quote
Questions/answers and a running tally
That vest. Marry me, Mallory.
Mallory is that vest from Express? I believe I seriously considered that same vest while working there in college but ultimately went with another.
You have done God’s work today.
Cabbages! Grace Kelly! Good showing.
Mallory looks great but I’m stuck on Tom Cohen–what is a fur broker?
HE LOOKED LIKE JAMES WOODS AND HIS JOB WAS TERRIFYING
here are some tiny pictures and a partial transcript in which we discover our fearless leader memorized the Declaration of Independence for $50
From our Toast names, I feel like we should be friends
I suppose it’s telling that I repeatedly read the title as “Going to Grad School and Taking Any Job You Can.”
Oh I know how it feels to have the school choice regret. I went to my home town university to be close to my family when my dad was sick, and while I wouldn’t give up the last few years with him for anything it still stings when I compare my opportunities to others. Clearly the answer is to start my own media empire with a stranger from the internet.
The phrase “compelling and butch” is compelling in itself
“when I thought I looked good in men’s cargo shorts”
an entire chapter in the Intro To Homosexuality Studies text
In all seriousness, I think that’s pretty good advice. ANY job can give you money and potentially valuable experience/contacts. If you’re embarrassed about it later, just leave it off your resume!
The more I find out about the people in my life, the more I find that they’ve all been on Jeopardy!.
Truth: no one looks good in men’s cargo shorts. Not even men.
One of my college friends seriously did look good in men’s cargo shorts. I really wanted to borrow her juuuust-on-the-adorable-side-of-butch style, and it took me a long time to admit that looking good in men’s cargo shorts is not my lot in life. I was comforted by the realization that that’s true for almost everybody.
I very recently took a job (in fact, yesterday was my first day), because “working is better than not-working”.
There is a lot more raw sewage in this job than I was led to believe.
I paid $31,000 in uni fees and have to get out of bed at 4:45a.m. for this??
I was once employed by a Baptist university that didn’t have a sexual harassment policy, but they did have a sexual misconduct policy that included the words homosexuality, adultery and fornication.
While the definition homosexuality is pretty obvious, I had to look up the difference between adultery and fornication to make sure I knew exactly what sins I was committing. I’m a proud fornicator, for those who were wondering.
A misconduct policy like that should be taken as a delightful challenge.
Oh I most certainly viewed it as a challenge and misconducted all over that place.
One of my college friends seriously did look good in men's cargo shorts. I really wanted to borrow her juuuust-on-the-adorable-side-of-butch style, and it took me a long time to admit that looking good in men's cargo shorts is not my lot in life. I was comforted by the realization that that's true for almost everybody.
I too, have felt this. I went to Cedarville.
“I felt like an idiot sitting next to a bunch of Stanford and Ivy League grads when I’d gone to a really unimpressive school, and I felt like everyone around me had attended a seminar on success that I’d slept through and I’d never be able to catch up.”
I too, have felt this. I went to Cedarville.
"I felt like an idiot sitting next to a bunch of Stanford and Ivy League grads when I’d gone to a really unimpressive school, and I felt like everyone around me had attended a seminar on success that I’d slept through and I’d never be able to catch up."