Sick of sitting on the street collecting coins in a can to buy a bunch of baozi when you could be leveraging your computer and culinary knowledge to eat for free?* Then check out this help wanted ad from The Beijinger for a dining editor. The powers that be there seek a native English speaker with writing, editing and, I assume, eating experience to handle the dining sections of the magazine and website. Your odds of employment increase if you have Chinese language and/or photograpy and/or layout skills. Send CV and a trio of writing samples to editor@thebeijinger.com. The magazine is also looking for a music editor and a freelance art writer. See this ad for more details.
* I realize the average beggar does not have the skills for this position. I just liked the alliteration in that sentence.
Beijinger MO since 2005 – we will “try you out” for a few issues but we don’t pay. I fell for this twice. They use my work but NEVER pay, they just rotate through people. They have no budget. No one there takes pride in there work. MW does not return calls or emails even after being introduced to him by you personally. No pride in the work and it shows — the mag is shite.
If it stopped publishing would we be that worse off? And for Pete’s sake get rid of that horribly dated “me too” logo that they had made for sometime but didn’t use.
A&W,
Really? Because I know people who have written for The Beijinger and they were paid. I also know people who have worked/work at The Beijinger and taken/take pride in what they did/do.
Anyway, today may be your lucky day because I called the GM of the magazine. He said that to the best of his knowledge the magazine has never failed to pay its freelancers in eight years, unless it is a case such as a writer leaving the country and not providing any contact info. You can contact him at:
gm@thebeijinger.com
Cheers, Boyce