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"Hannah went to a real, live job last night&amp;amp;#8212;and watching her settle into her cubicle for the first time, I felt both of the emotions parents feel watching their child board the school bus for the first day of kindergarten: 1) enormous pride and 2) a nagging fear that somehow, she&amp;#x27;ll blow it. Hannah delivered on both instincts once she got to the offices of GQ (not the real ones, I might point out, as Glamour&amp;#x27;s just seven floors up from them). Throughout the episode, I was torn between rolling my eyes at her naivete (it&amp;#x27;s a standard office, not Alice in Wonderland) and acknowledging that ha, she&amp;#x27;s got a point. Somewhere between those two points of the spectrum, five universal truths on the working world made themselves known. 1) Ya gotta start somewhere, and the &amp;quot;start&amp;quot; part is more important than the &amp;quot;where.&amp;quot; The intellectually persnickety Ray saw through Hannah&amp;#x27;s staff writer claims immediately&amp;amp;#8212;and for the rest of the episode, she had a scarlet A (for &amp;quot;advertorial&amp;quot;) on her chest. Was a job dressing up copy for Neiman Marcus part of Hannah&amp;#x27;s literary-world-domination plan? No, ma&amp;#x27;am. But 90 percent of our first jobs (and second jobs! and third jobs!) aren&amp;#x27;t positions ripped straight from our fifth-grade diaries. They&amp;#x27;re gigs we identify as having some potential, whether they offer valuable connections or simple get-up-and-go daily discipline. Being flexible on how you get to your dream often gets you there faster. 2) Go for it. With a side of stealth. Oh, Hannah. Is there any faster way to make enemies at work on day one than bouncing in your seat and raising your hand, then letting loose a stream of self-satisfied brainstorms? Don&amp;#x27;t get me wrong: Hannah&amp;#x27;s ideas were good. She was right to dive in strong. I&amp;#x27;m just saying, catching your breath between Stroke of Genius Reveals 3 and 4 is a good way to let other people in the room talk. They&amp;#x27;ll reward you, hopefully, by not telling you they &amp;quot;don&amp;#x27;t like your face.&amp;quot; 3) I wouldn&amp;#x27;t necessarily count on the free snacks. I mean, they might be there, but better to keep your hopes low and be pleasantly surprised, right? I distinctly remember, at my first job, having the opportunity to frequently special-order my own cases of that Vitamin Water 50 Cent made, on the house. But I&amp;#x27;m getting up there in years, and this was Before the Economy Sucked. So manage your expectations. 4) Don&amp;#x27;t quit a job until you&amp;#x27;re sure. Because, never forget... 5) &amp;quot;OK, Hannah. A lot of other people would love to have your job.&amp;quot; That really is it. (Side note: How perfect was J.Crew&amp;#x27;s Jenna Lyons as Hannah&amp;#x27;s bulls&amp;amp;#8212;t-weary boss?) Though Hannah and Adam have already faced friend fatigue and differences on grief this season, I think what we saw in last night&amp;#x27;s ep was the first real seeds of trouble between them. It&amp;#x27;s really hard to make a relationship between someone who&amp;#x27;s accepted the realities of the working world and someone who&amp;#x27;s still in principles-or-die mode work. It&amp;#x27;s not good for rent-related matters, and it&amp;#x27;s even worse for happiness maintenance. Hannah&amp;#x27;s cheerily making up the difference between where she is and where she wants to be by answering &amp;quot;Hannah Horvath&amp;#x27;s office!&amp;quot; when the phone in her cube rings. Adam&amp;#x27;s acting victimized by a prompt to smile on command. At the end of the day, those two people can&amp;#x27;t empathize with each other&amp;amp;#8212;and one of them is tired from the commute. In other news: Guys, I sort of love this Marnie and Ray thing! I thought I loved Shoshanna and Ray, but I really love Marnie and Ray. They&amp;#x27;re both misanthropes in their own way, and I could watch a full Annie Hall of their bickering. Is it just me? And what did you think of Hannah&amp;#x27;s big work debut?"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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