Gawker starts the year with industry leading cynicism.

2010 January 3

Finding this image made my day amazing.

In this case perhaps, the dour snark is warranted as the site presents its Gawker Guide to a Journalism career, 2010 Edition.

Predictably equal parts sardonic and sadistic, there are some gem one liners that are painfully funny only because they are painfully true. To wit:

As newspapers and magazines desperately lay off talented people, the more established online precincts are scooping them up. Gawker is now a more stable employer than Conde Nast! Which is probably a bad sign!

Perhaps the only thing more hilarious than the article’s nuclear conclusion that any unemployed journalist right now should just go on a five-year sabbatical are the comments by the readers, many of whom are apparently unemployed journalists.

Got to give it to us at least — unlike layed off auto-workers, out of work writers can make woe-is-me more entertaining than Paris Hilton at the Vatican.

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