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unemployment

August 2, 2018

An Unemployed Person (Who’s Not Bitter At All) Writes a Job Recruiter’s Job Description

YSABEL YATES
June 7, 2018

Welcome to The Void, Where 99% of All Job Applications End Up

NATALIE KOPP
June 6, 2018

Ferris Bueller’s Laid Off

WENDI AARONS
March 23, 2017

Applying for Jobs
as a Recent College Graduate: A Modern Text RPG

AMANDA LYNN
October 18, 2016

Moderately Motivated Gen-Xer for Hire

MELISSA JANISIN
March 28, 2016

List: Job Email Subject Lines from a Poor College Graduate in a Dickens Novel

EMMA STEFANSKY
June 26, 2015

The Cover Letter of Every College Graduate with a Liberal Arts Degree

SOPHIA PASLASKI
April 8, 2015

Adult Films I Could Star In

JEFFREY BLUM
April 8, 2015

List: New Age Nondescript Markers of Status

CAITLIN KELLEY
February 21, 2013

List: More Accurate Names for the Generic Cereals Consumed While Broke and Unemployed

ROXANNE MAIKRANZ and SARA SABOL-MAIKRANZ

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August 8, 2018

The Very Model of a Modern-Age Millennial

MEG ELISON
August 2, 2018

You Have Been Loading the Dishwasher Incorrectly Your Entire Life

DANIEL KIBBLESMITH
November 12, 2015

Maybe I Should Stop Bringing Up My Cat So Much When People Tell Me Stories About Their Kids

JORY JOHN
June 29, 2018

List: 17 Real-Life Would-You-Rathers I, a Woman, Have Had to Ask Myself

ISABELLA GIOVANNINI

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August 15, 2018

How Can We Save Democracy? Shut Up, So I Can Tell You

D.R. BEITZEL
August 15, 2018

List: Table of Contents From Sorry, You’re Kind of Fucked: The Only Child’s Survival Guide

CATHARINE OGLETREE
August 15, 2018

One Small Blow Against Encroaching Totalitarianism: An Excerpt from Nobody Hates Trump More than Trump: An Intervention

DAVID SHIELDS
August 15, 2018

How to Handle Anxiety About the Toxic Sludge Filling Your Bedroom

JONATHAN ZELLER