I Would Like To Have Money
May 14th, 2007I would like to get money to make/write comedy things. This has been an abstract goal for a while, but that every company in the world who witnessed YouTube being sold for ten billion trillion dollars is now launching “original content” for an audience that will never watch it I figure there’s no reason people shouldn’t be hiring me.
So, I need to go about finding these jobs since in about a year or less the companies will realize that there’s really not a way to manufacture “viral” content and fire everyone. (I survived the dot-com bust and all I got was this lousy pink-slip party.)
I applied for one call for content creators and got branded a “promising candidate.” Now, rather than interview people, the person in charge sent a Nerve personals-style “questionaire” of asinine questions asking me to analyze some horrible YouTube video and The Departed as well as shit like “What’s the wittiest comment you’ve ever made?” and “what adjective would you friends use to describe you?”
I realize the process of looking for work should be full of petty incidents of humiliation, but I’m fucking insulted. I am a “promising candidate” not some schmuck off the street. I sent video files. I thought maybe I was being hypersensitive, but another friend got the questionaire and said it make him want to shit in the guy’s coffee.
I’m on the fence between ignoring it or writing “fuck you” type answers to every one.