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The lead-in copy for a 7.5 N.Y. Times story by Alex Williams called "Getting Through The Summer Job Blues" reads as follows: "Will Ehrenfeld, a Tufts senior, is staying home for the summer after he could not find a job." Somebody explain it to this kid. There's no giving up, and any job seeker who figures "okay, game over" and decides to just hang at home is a dead man. So Willy tried? Gave it his best shot? Losers always whine about their best. Winners go home and enjoy endless carnal knowledge of the prom queen.

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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on July 5, 2009 at 6:40 AM

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Reelist says ...

There are plenty of jobs out there, but I guess Willy wanted to spend the summer getting paid $20/hour to surf the internet in an air conditioned office.

Posted by Reelist at July 5, 2009 7:01 AM

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The Hey says ...

Can't believe Jeff just quoted a Michael Bay movie. :-)

Posted by The Hey at July 5, 2009 7:03 AM

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BoshBarnetWonkyDonkey says ...

I'd love a summer of sitting around doing nothing. He has 50 years of working in an office ahead of him. What's wrong with slacking off for a summer?

Americans are weird with their obsession with working all the time. Not taking sick days, cutting short vacation, etc. Why? Fucking relax. I love living here, but the office culture I work in is fucking mental. "I'm out of the office on vacation but I will be checking my BlackBerry" -- fucking why? Bury it in the garden for the summer and enjoy life.

Posted by BoshBarnetWonkyDonkey at July 5, 2009 7:10 AM

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MilkMan says ...

Cereal is for closers.

Posted by MilkMan at July 5, 2009 7:19 AM

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corey3rd says ...

"And then in the midst of the summer recession, your father was reduced to drinking domestic beer with his prep school classmates. The horror!"

At least they looked for a job - which was more than what I used to do during my summer breaks from college. Summer was the time explore and not punch a clock. But then again, I did go to a state school.

Posted by corey3rd at July 5, 2009 7:47 AM

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krout says ...

"Can't believe Jeff just quoted a Michael Bay movie. :-)"

. . The only half-way decent Michael Bay movie.

Posted by krout at July 5, 2009 8:15 AM

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George Prager says ...

Looks like these schlubs need a pep talk from Jon Voight:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbtVlqTBlMg

Posted by George Prager at July 5, 2009 8:48 AM

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Moises Chiullan says ...

It's missing the impact of "go home and fuck the prom queen." That line made me not feel like I'd wasted my time watching the movie.

Posted by Moises Chiullan at July 5, 2009 9:05 AM

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Deathtongue_Groupie says ...

Yes, because when the actual national unemployment number is estimated to be around 20%(!), it's on account that he is giant loser that he can't find a job.

Posted by Deathtongue_Groupie at July 5, 2009 9:52 AM

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DeeZee says ...

Jeff, if most of us could find work, we wouldn't have voted for Obama in the first place.

Posted by DeeZee at July 5, 2009 10:41 AM

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Josh Massey says ...

That kid can find a job. He just thinks he's above working at The Gap or Chili's.

Posted by Josh Massey at July 5, 2009 10:47 AM

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Chapman Carruthers says ...

After schilling our $120,000 on a Tufts education, I'd consider myself above working at fucking Chili's too.

Posted by Chapman Carruthers at July 5, 2009 11:09 AM

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bmcintire says ...

Students looking for internships are trying to fill a much-needed (read: required) slot on their resumes. The consulting firms that I worked for would have looked at a summer vacancy before their senior year (and no, they would not have included Chili's or The Gap after having interned at a political think-tank) and thrown it in the trash. Everything they do is about prepping for a post B-School job, depressingly single-minded as that is.
In the salad days, this void would have been filled with "travel abroad," an also much-desired bullet point. For most parents of college-minded kids, those days have passed.
As for the minimum-wage dig: "Even the local Boston Market had no work."

Posted by bmcintire at July 5, 2009 11:45 AM

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hunterd says ...

Agian Wells, girls with chipped nail polish fuck better than the prom queen.

Posted by hunterd at July 5, 2009 4:43 PM

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crazynine says ...

"Jeff, if most of us could find work, we wouldn't have voted for Obama in the first place."

Good thing you did.

http://michaelscomments.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/stimulus-vs-unemployment-june-dots.gif

Posted by crazynine at July 6, 2009 5:14 AM

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mccool says ...

jeffrey, don't mistake motion with action. There's nothing wrong with laying low, being thoughtful and contemplative, enjoying some time off before what will most likely become a grinding career. Sitting home and playing video games is not my idea of this, but he's on a laptop, so let's give him the benefit of the doubt.

And is it just me, or does that dog look like an AT-AT from Empire Strikes Back?

Posted by mccool at July 6, 2009 7:02 AM

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