Archive for the 'Career' Category



How to get a job in New york

Ironically, now that I finally have a job in the city, you might not hear much about it. This NYTimes story (about bloggers getting hired and fired due to their online disclosures) might as well be about me (the hiring part, not the firing part). In light of these issues, I’ve already erred [...]

I couldn’t do it. I just couldn’t help myself. And neither could the mainstream media.
I still haven’t written up the story of how I finally got a job and moved to New York, which is kind of the point of this site. Regardless, the project that I’m doing graphic design for, MTV’s [...]

Now that I’m gainfully employed at MTV, I’ve been enjoying receiving boilerplate rejection emails from other companies. When one unexpectedly pops up in my inbox, I think: oh, okay, yeah, I remember you guys–I would have never worked for you anyway. Which may or may not be true–but the sting of rejection inspires such [...]

The view from my room

Sorry, it’s night out.
But I am finally, actually, triumphantly living in New York. Sorry, haters.

The view from my desk

Corporate whore

DVguru is part of the Weblogs Inc. network, which is owned by AOL/Time Warner. MTV is part of Viacom. I now work for two of the largest media corporations in the world. I’m a corporate whore.