Writers wanted: adventure and motoring

This is the first of regular posts on off-beat jobs for writers around the world. This week we’ve got an opportunity that sounds like one of those unsubtle ads for MI6/CIA operatives and some car writing jobs both in the US and UK. I’d jump at the first if I didn’t have kids and I may even apply for one of those motoring posts.

Adventurous job:

Honestly, I'm a writer!

Honestly, I'm a writer!

International Business Journalists wanted for Oil & Gas intelligence research. Head office in Istanbul with months abroad spent working in target countries.

What you need:

  • An interest in and experience of travel
  • Year-around availability
  • Perfect command of written and spoken English
  • Excellent presentation
  • A good university degree in economics, political sciences or international relations is valued
  • The applicant must be up-to-date on current events, hard working and easy to live with
  • He or she must keep a cool head under pressure and be at ease with tight deadlines
  • A taste for adventure is mandatory

Sound like your thing? Go here: http://t.co/DpKr2GsS 

Super car wreck

Super car wreck

Driving Jobs

How about driving Japanese high performance cars and editing three publications all about them? UK based.

Click this: http://t.co/ABlnklj5 

Or writing for the awesome Jalopnik website. Two writer positions available, one in New York, one in either Los Angeles or Detroit. If i was a Yankee-doodler I’d be in there like a slingshot.

Click that: http://t.co/xmF8Huxq

Business Insider in the US are looking for someone to write about everything from cars to spacecraft. No brainer right?

Get your OCD on and click: http://t.co/RTqEjGsm

If you get the job, let me know so I can seethe with envy.

Live well.

 

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Being Bedouin – A free talk on Tuesday 24th November at the Nat Geo Regent Street store. One not to Miss!

Being Bedouin - A Talk

Being Bedouin - A Talk

The evenings are drawing in, but it’s time once again to girdle your loins and brave the weather for an evening at the National Geographic on Regent Street.

This months speaker, Mark Abouzeid, is flying in directly from expedition in Jordan to join us on the 24th. His talk “Being Bedouin” will be about the disappearing desert culture of Wadi Rum, accompanied by video and images.

“How do you capture the entire character of a culture that has no written record, has lived for centuries in relative isolation and exists in complete harmony with one of the world’s most extreme environments?”

I’ve worked closely with Mark over the last couple of years, from the North Pole to the desert, and I can guarantee that he is a totally engaging speaker and this is an opportunity not to miss.

He is one of the founders of the Bedouin Heritage Project and I’ll be featuring some more videos from them over the coming weeks.

As ever the talks are free and last an hour and you will retire to a local hostelry after.

WHERE: 1st Floor, The National Geographic Store, 83-97 Regents Street, London W1B 4EW (see map)

WHEN: 6.30pm, Tuesday, 24th November, 2009.

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