CareerBuilder “job match” email:
Email: Can you sell?!
Me: No.
*hits delete without reading rest of email*
Since when did showing interest in graphic design jobs turn into a steady stream of employment offers from companies wanting to hire salespeople? I tried to think about what I could possibly sell someone, and the only thing I came up with was Firefox, which isn’t sold anyway, so that makes me an…I don’t know what. An activist?
It might be kind of fun to set up a roadside booth and pitch a browser, though. Kind of like the boiled peanut guy. (Boiled peanuts are disgusting, however, and you should not try to sell them in Florida in the dead of July. Just so you know.)
The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one — or both. Usually both.
—Susan Sontag
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