Typing merrily. Not ripping out hunks of his own hair, or scribbling panicked lists of potential future employers, or crying uncontrollably as one might expect of someone who has just enrolled in a $43,527 10-month program for a master’s degree in what political activist and writer Barbara Ehrenreich called “a dying industry” in a 2009 commencement address to UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism.

In fact, he’s optimistic about his future.