Choire: “This shit is SO OVER. Um… DeVry????”
I’m sure there’s a Springsteen song that includes the line “and those jobs are never coming back” or something like that. While it’s sad to watch certain parts of New York society slowly ball into a steel town, I think Choire is onto something. After the first dotcom crash, Chris Gage and I used to talk about going to Apex Technical in Chelsea. Our plan was to open a high-end custom go-kart shop in Darien, CT after completing the auto tech and body repair tracks. Then we’d get a series on one of those Discovery channels. We got as far as the end of the block. But the message is there. It’s never been more clear than now for media types and others in similarly fucked industries: go learn a new trade. Or better, start your job search here.
