ROUND UP: They Hired Who?!

In about nine months, like other college grads I'll be venturing out into the real world in search of a job. It's a daunting task of course, but given some of the questionable hiring practices this week, it's getting more terrifying by the second.

• Jenna Hager, (a.k.a. former first daughter Jenna Bush), secured a reporter position with NBC's "Today Show" earlier this week despite having no journalism experience whatsoever (unless you count being target practice for the paparazzi and tabloids).
  In an interview with the Associated Press, she even admitted it's not a career path she ever considered and that she's not particularly qualified for the job.
  "It wasn't something I'd always dreamed to do," she said. "I hope to focus on what I'm passionate about because I think I'd do the best job on them — education, urban education, women and children's issues and literacy."
  Yeah, because literacy clearly runs in the family ... This is the person we'll be getting our news from. Great. It's very reassuring considering how many talented J-school grads there are that are currently jobless. So. Unfair.

• Remember disgraced former Gov. Elliot Spitzer? You know, the one who got busted with a high-priced escort hooker? Students at City College in Manhattan will be calling him 'Professor Spitzer' this semester. Yup, he's teaching a class on public policy at the New York university. Interesting move on their part, but at least it's not a class on ethics ...

The lesson? Toss your morals out the window & go for a career outside your major, kiddies. That's how we're supposed to get a job nowadays, I guess.