Dealing With The New Reality:

8 Good People: “…(W)e are a group of writers chronicling our lives without work. Sometimes we’ll be whimsical, sometimes we’ll fulminate, but we’ll strive to be always interesting. Roger and Emily continue their reports on the world of the job interview, and don’t miss Rochelle’s tale of what makes her heart go pitter-patter… (E)ight unemployed former high-tech journalists have

created a Web site that plays with the idea of reality programming and tries

to make

it meaningful.

… (W)e eight – including a Pulitzer Prize

winner, the woman who was the first news editor of CNET, a former National

Geographc staffer – are using the reality programming genre to try to

get the attention of prospective employers by writing about what life has

been like without a steady paycheck. We like to think of it as reality

programming without the TV and the shlock factor….”