We Used to Get Jobs
How We Used To Get Jobs A Newspaper Classifieds Story David Friedman 11 Aug 2026 • 4 min read Share I can smell the newsprint. Photo by AbsolutVision on Unsplash One of my first big personal successes in my career was way back in 2000, when I became Polo Ralph Lauren’s in-house photographer. It was my second staff photography job, the first one being at Christie’s auction house.
- ▪How We Used To Get Jobs A Newspaper Classifieds Story David Friedman 11 Aug 2026 • 4 min read Share I can smell the newsprint.
- ▪Photo by AbsolutVision on Unsplash One of my first big personal successes in my career was way back in 2000, when I became Polo Ralph Lauren’s in-house photographer.
- ▪It was my second staff photography job, the first one being at Christie’s auction house.
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| Original publisher | Ironic Sans |
| Canonical URL | https://ironicsans.ghost.io/how-we-used-to-get-jobs/ |
| Publication time | Tue, 11 Aug 2026 18:09:56 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-08-11T19:00:43.187Z |
| Last seen | 2026-08-11T19:00:43.187Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | None |
| Cluster logic | Not yet clustered, or no peer story found in the clustering window. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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How We Used To Get Jobs A Newspaper Classifieds Story David Friedman 11 Aug 2026 • 4 min read Share I can smell the newsprint. Photo by AbsolutVision on Unsplash One of my first big personal successes in my career was way back in 2000, when I became Polo Ralph Lauren’s in-house photographer. It was my second staff photography job, the first one being at Christie’s auction house. Polo offered me twice what I was making at Christie’s, and accepting the position was a no-brainer. It felt great as a young photographer who’d only been in New York for a few years to have found myself in what seemed like a dream job.But looking back, one of the most interesting things about it was how I found this dream job, through a relic of an earlier time: a classified listing in the newspaper.At least,…
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