Dear LFTP: shy college freshman wants a job and confidence

• I'm a shy college freshman who wants a job but never gets callbacks — how do I get connected at school, manage a job, and have more confidence in interviews?

A college freshman writes in: he wants a job to support himself and help with rent, but he is shy, bad at interviews, and never gets callbacks. The hosts give practical advice — apply at every fast-food place in a ten-mile radius, use the campus career center, and keep practicing — then read a batch of mock 'secular' advice (dead-eye eye contact, memorized mission statements) and tear it apart. The segment drifts into comedy about fast-food work, a Burger King anecdote, and mocking a career counselor from 1985 before landing on: this person wants to improve, so help him instead of belittling him.