For a guy who makes a living on the Internet, I’m blissfully and intentionally uninformed when it comes to internet pop culture. I rarely browse TikTok, can’t name you one Twitch creator, and the only podcast I regularly listen to is – or at least was – my own.
As a result of this internet illiteracy, I’ve never heard of Career Ladder with Max Klymenko – a web series where a guy from Europe stands on a ladder and guesses people’s careers in two minutes while interviewing them. It’s a concept that's amassed him 9-million followers.
You know, this really reminds me that I need to get to work on my new streaming series Career Gutter – a concept where I interview real-life people while standing in a real-life storm gutter and guess their biggest career mistakes and compare them to mine. I’m going to be rich and famous someday, I tell you!
Anyway, I guess Max was at the park chilling on his ladder in some unknown location next to a huge mountain a month or two ago when some tall, kind of dopey guy with an American accent walked up and said that, in his job, 4 million people count on him.
Intrigued, Max Klymenko then unknowingly invited the man onto his ladder and…