Overqualified

"Overqualified's cover letters are like a slap in the face, but the slap is
hilarious, and you can't stop laughing, and as soon as it's over you want to
tell all your friends about the slap. You know the kind?" \- Ryan North,
Dinosaur Comics "Joey Comeau's Overqualified is Judy Blume's Are You There
God? It's Me, Margaret as chewed up and spit out by J. G. Ballard. . . . A
book whose melancholy is leavened by a surprising hilarity." \- Paul Di
Filippo, author of The Steampunk Trilogy and Cosmocopia Cover letters are all
the same. They're useless. You write the same lies over and over again,
listing the store-bought parts of yourself that you respect the least. God
knows how they tell anyone apart, but this is how it's done. And then one day
a car comes out of nowhere, and suddenly everything changes and you don't know
if he'll ever wake up. You get out of bed in the morning, and when you sit
down to write another paint-by-numbers cover letter, something entirely
different comes out. You start threatening instead of begging. You tell
impolite jokes. You talk about your childhood and your sexual fantasies. You
sign your real name and you put yourself honestly into letter after letter and
there is no way you are ever going to get this job. Not with a letter like
this. And you send it anyway.