Since her days on Laguna Beach and The Hills, Kristin Cavallari has built a career designing shoes and jewelry and one special book all about her life. But if it weren’t for reality TV, Kristin told Vegas magazine in 2010, she would be something else.

When praying mantis aliens tell you to quit your job and become a soothsayer, sometimes you follow their orders. At least that’s what one woman here in Phnom Penh did earlier this year. Eileen, who declined to give her full name in case her mom found out about her drastic career change, was working in international development in Cambodia but now sits in a colorful stall in one of Phnom Penh’s teeming markets. Her fortune-telling services have proven popular with locals who have dubbed her “Kru Khmer Barang”—the Western shaman.

Meticulously scruffy smirker Ryan Gosling has announced in an interview that he is taking brief professional hiatus from acting:

Only fools take career advice from a website, other than this website. If you glanced at the new alleged listing of the Best and Worst Jobs from CareerCast.com today, this is what you would be asked to believe:

Oh-oh, a new study of entry-level investment bankers finds the young masters of the universe afflicted with "insomnia, alcoholism, heart palpitations, eating disorders and an explosive temper." And that's the young ones. Why destroy yourself like that? There are lots of safer activities than investment banking.

Remember Lena Chen? She was big on the internet a few years back for being a compulsively oversharing sex blogger while she attended Harvard. Anyhow, she graduated, and stopped sex blogging, and we forgot about her. Now she's back! And we're going to use her story as a peg for some completely unsolicited advice-giving.

Bristol Palin, daughter of Sarah, former star dancer, do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do abstinence advocate, and facial shape shifter, has her own reality show. No, it's not Extreme Makeover. It's some crazy project for the Bio channel.

If you're one of the kids who's spending the weekend trying to decide whether to go to Harvard next year or become a prison guard in one of California's luxurious prisons, you might check out the Wall Street Journal.

Want to break into the competitive world of fashion, be relocated to New York, and get health insurance, a good salary, and a generous clothing allowance? All you have to do is impress Marc Jacobs on Twitter and you can be his professional Twitter slave.

Brian Tierney got rich as a much-hated (by journalists) Republican PR man in Philadelphia. Then he led a group that bought Philly's newspapers and went bankrupt. Now, he's going back into PR. Philadelphia thanks you for your service, Brian. [NYT]

Here's a trailer for Gulliver's Travels, the 3D (ugh) comedy starring Jack Black as a modern-day Gulliver who mixes it up with the Lilliputians. This certainly doesn't appear to be Swiftian satire, though. Mostly it's just fat jokes.

"What is Vanilla Ice up to these days?" you probably asked yourself this morning, while guzzling orange Faygo and weeping. Well, like most Americans, Vanilla Ice has reinvented himself as a reality TV "star." To the delight of Fox News!

Haitian non-president Wyclef is now a "visiting fellow" in Brown University's Department of Africana Studies.

Mad Men's Jon Hamm worked in porn. He wasn't an actor or a director but a set dresser on a soft-core movie. Not as racy as we'd hoped, but still "Hamm" and "porn" in the same sentence sure is something.

First, there were paid internships. Those were okay. Then, there were unpaid internships. Those were just slightly better than nothing. Now, there are internships you pay for, which won't even get you a high-paying job. Those are a scam.

Ladies: need to ask your boss for a raise, but unsure how? This Summer's Eve ad has a step-by-step plan for you. Step One: "showering with Summer's Eve feminine wash."

The producers of Puppetry of the Penis, the Australian show that re-opened off-Broadway last night, want a new bartender: Andrew Lawrance, the Aussie cop who might get fired after opening a beer bottle with his penis piercing.

"Trend forecasting" firm Tobe charges anywhere from $25,000 to $250,000 a year in order to tell its corporate clients what the hot fashions will be this season. How does Tobe know this? They just make it up, duh.

Wild-maned ad whiz Alex Bogusky, famous for weird Burger King ads and being a sickeningly stereotypical "creative," has resigned from his company, and is reportedly retiring from the ad business for good to focus on outside "initiatives." God speed, dude.

The likable, coltish actress has just won an Oscar but all anyone can talk about is hissy Jesse James gossip. So let's take a moment to discuss not her marital woes, but how she can keep the career buzz going.