They can barely afford bus fare. But “the junior stylists, assistant editors, associate marketing managers, and assorted other aspiring media executives, mostly middle-class and private-college-educated, spend their days greasing the wheels of Manhattan’s entertainment-industrial complex.” Their salaries are real-world modest, forcing ingenuity in their personal budgets. But they “spend their nights at Pastis, wrapped in trade-price Burberry scarves, chatting on loaner StarTACs, or in clients’ courtside Knicks seats drinking expensed Bud Lights,” all courtesy of the clients trying to woo their favors. – New York Magazine