Want a job? Work for free and send your resume in a box

Who doesn't open a box? So sayeth Darren Rovell:

 

Maybe Drip should send Rovell a ring box.

 

He's getting ripped for this tweet, and is behaving very defensively.

 

Perhaps his employer will investigate the work for free idea.

 

After this genius bit of enlightenment, employers are going to end their job postings a little differently.

"No phone calls or boxes."

 

And the wire service could get the student to write a story for free too!

 

I think it was Rovell who used to send out his resume in a triangle-shaped box. He took it to the extreme.

Back when sending design packages was still a thing, I packaged my stuff in a coil-bound booklet. It usually made an impression.

 

Sports editors everywhere be like:

 

Sportswriters turned attorneys, weigh in. Are unpaid internships even legal in Illinois?

 

This is starting to sound like those listings on the jobs board where one gets paid according to hits.

 

Matthew Berry has taken up the "work for free" flag on Twitter. After a few tweets, he says, "Yeah, I had another full-time job when I did it, but ..."

 

There's nothing more reassuring to a parent than paying between $150,000 and $200,000 for a degree whose demonstrated market worth is zero dollars.