We are hiring! Check out the link below for the how-to.

http://carcraft.com/howto/CCRP_060900_job/

do it.

douglas

Whatever happened to this contest?

Did Dr511scj send in a resume?

(Too bad I didn't see this until today . . .  But then McGean only just turned up in print at Hemmings . . . .)

http://speedzzter.blogspot.com

Ah! Once again life imitates art . . . .

[Flashback]

Writer X (PBS):  A huge publishing monolith conducts a Jack Roush-style "gong show" search for a new "Junior Assistant Special Projects Associate Editor" (ever notice how everyone at a car mag is an "editor?") 

In the first episode, the SUITS UPSTAIRS screen the hoard of on-line applications submitted by the various illiterati who all think it would be "bitchin'" to "work" for a car book (and get paid to style like e. e. cummings.)  

("work," in the minds of the idealistic wantabe scribes,  of course,  means:

• guzzling free booze mooched from product reps,
  
• doing sydeshow doughnuts in handbuilt "press fleet" vehicles and rental cars,
  
• snapping a few blurry digital photos at "events" across the Heartland,
  
• "meeting and greeting" the t-shirt models,  and
  
• occasionally turning in one long, hackneyed, run-on sentence of a story,  before jumping ship for an industry PR rep gig)  

The least incoherent of the applicants are then initiated to the "realities" of publishing ("You want me to work 100 hours per week for WHAT!?!" "You want cream in your coffee, Mr. Editor-In-Chief?"  "Sure, I can rewrite thirty manufacturer press releases before deadline." "Oh I've got a really, really  fresh angle on that SBC build-up  . . . .")

http://forums.carcraft.primediaautomotive.com/n/mb/message.asp?webtag=carcraft&msg=1642.18