What’s the shittiest or strangest job you ever had to do?
I once freelanced creating fake profiles for a new social network in the U.K. and had to message people to build momentum for the website. When my male boss noticed that the naughty female profiles he had created were getting the most activity and suggested we create more naughty profiles—I quit. I found this writing job on Gumtree, the U.K.-version of Craigslist. It was 2008, the height of the financial crisis, I was fresh out of grad school and I needed money.
Long-time The Onion parody news site writer Lane Moore created Gold Stars, a comedy web series based on just that: being broke and the random-shitty-strange jobs one will take for money. It’s also about living in Brooklyn, love-hate friendships, bad roommates, dating and a horde of other relatable things you’ll find amusing. The best part is—it’s filmed in Bushwick.







