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Craigslist: Edit Spaish Website. Must be detail oriented - $40/hr
Spanish. I read a lot of Craigslist postings from companies looking for writers or editors. There’s always something special when the headline proves their need to fill the position.
Oh, and the site needing translation is www.lamejorliposuccion.com, which translates to “The Best Liposuction” (dot com).
I’m mostly sorry for not posting, but it’s been a hectic few weeks. I have a new full-time job, which wasn’t part of the plan, but hey — plans change. I’m now a news editor for this little website, which is cool, but my schedule is way different now and I’m trying to adjust.
It’s like I’ve made a decision that could alter the course of my entire life.
More like this here.
One day I’ll post more. One day.
I read this question and I said to myself, “Who is Jose Castillo and why did pirates have him?” It took me probably a full 20 seconds to realize it’s a baseball question (I didn’t read the answer options while I was considering this, obviously). Then I thought about what an awesome world I’d live in if that were a news question.
Will the pirates who captured Jose Castillo regret the decision to let him go? And why? Was he a good hostage for leverage? Or is he unstoppable when seeking revenge? Will he hunt the pirates and their families while they sleep? Do pirates have families that they care about? Oh, wait, it’s just a baseball question. I don’t know anything about baseball.
Been paying attention to job postings a little more closely lately for whatever reason, and some of them are pretty interesting. Take this one:
We need a creative, corky, romantic and fun writer to help with our online site for Friday 11/30/2007 and Monday 12/3/2007.
That is the entire text of the listing. But no more needs to be said. You can tell all you need to know about the company from just the one sentence. First, they have an online site to work on. So that’s good. Very now. Their online site is in need of something to be written, obviously. So they’re looking for a writer who’s creative — a creative writer. There are plenty of those. But how many creative writers can say they’re fun, romantic, and corky? Not many. Plenty are fun, several are romantic, and some are corky, but all three? Could be tough.
This ad is perfect. It took just one sentence for them to ask for a writer and leave no doubt that they need one.
