You, my dear, are the Queen of Wicked Long LiveJournal Entries. (Which, incidentally, should be a Munchkin card.) Anyway, I think perhaps in your hypothetical interview with Paul Levitz you should bring up what you think is wrong and what you would do to fix it. Prospective employers love that sort of thing. The CDO man of doom told a rather inspirational story about how Augusten Burroughs got his first job by doing just that.

And I'm sorry about the slaving. *sheepish*