Jayson Blair is now a certified life coach in Loudoun County.

Awesome story from the AP’s Matthew Barakat about how disgraced former New York Times reporter Jayson Blair has set up shop as a Certified Life Coach in Ashburn, Va. You can find Blair’s bio on the Ashburn Psychological Services web site here, which makes no mention of his famous fabrications, but does allude to his autobiography on the subject. Blair’s famous schmoozing skills apparently translate well to his ability to help people figure out their career and personal problems, according to his boss. The former reporter also has his own web site promoting his life coaching business, which he began sometime after being diagnosed with bipolar disorder.

Despite the profession’s dumb sounding name, I know several people who have gotten a lot of benefit out of seeing a life coach in lieu of spending bigger bucks on a psychologist. And I always wonder what people who so royally and publicly screw up their lives end up doing to make ends meet.