The account of a short career at the New Yorker

Dan Baum runs the story as a series of tweets from May 8 - 12 which can be viewed in full at his website: http://www.danbaum.com/Nine_Lives/New_Yorker_tweets.html.

Lesson learned: Stay out of journalism because even at its pinnacle, it's an anxiety-ridden world where the benefits are low, and office politics predominate.

[Hat tip: Seth Roberts]