4:51 PM |
He replied to my comment, his website is here:
Apparently the job advertised is for creating content from User Generated website (which are reknown for paying writers next to nothing)...so I'm not sure whether this job even comes up to the Samoan pay rates he refers to.
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 9:52 AM, avaiki - jason brown <avaiki.nius@gmail.com> wrote:
. . .
hire a local ?
my goodness no dominka!! we might actually learn something then!! as it is, it sounds like the blogger will be safely ensconsed with "expat kiwis" being paid exorbitant amounts to, presumably, launch a tourism website that local web developers could have done ages ago.
to add insult to injury, the ad refers to a "cold kiwi beer" - ignoring the fact that there is a locally brewed beer, Vailima, that pisses over most NZ brews. Oh, and not to belabour a point, but isn't promoting Samoan products supposed to be part of tourism promotion?
aaron, me suspicious too ... sometimes ads are handled through an employment agency and don't give their details but yeah, stinks from top to bottom.
tavita, what say ye?
jason
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On 24 March 2010 09:02, Aaron Taouma <aaron.taouma1@gmail.com> wrote:
IS this for real?? I am suspicious of a company you can't find contact information for??--
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 11:04 AM, pima news <pima.nius@gmail.com> wrote:
Blogger/Journo Samoa
Listing #: 279527958--
Company: Gold Tick Services Ltd Location: Auckland City, Auckland Type: Full time, Contract/Temp Listed: Tue, 23 Mar Pay and benefits: All expenses paid to & in Samoa (excl beer!)
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to get your passport up to date quick smart, then slip on up to that tropical South Pacific Paradise that's otherwise known as post-Tsunami Samoa.
The project is to develop the core content of a new portal website for Samoa, one designed to inform the world about Samoa "from on the ground", so to speak!
You will be one of those really annoying people who make words sing so easily and naturally while the rest of us have to write, rewrite and then suffer the indignity of watching an editor rehash our entire week's work.
Verbosity was your middle name until the Internet came along and you changed your name to Concision. You are of course a natural Web journalist, a blogger extraordinaire, and can knock out a YouTube video faster than your teenage kids can (just!). You're also a dab hand at photography to boot.
On a daily basis, you will be up and about zipping around the countryside taking snap shots of resorts, hotels, all the great tourism spots and adventures, visiting the Tsunami affected areas, meeting and interviewing locals about all aspects of Samoa (before, during and after the Tsunami). After your siesta you will be furiously tapping away into your notebook computer just itching to share the richness of your amazing new life experiences with others.
Some days you will be lounging around a five star tourism pool with a view to die for. Others you will be sitting on top of a mountain with 180 degree views of the coral reef and the Pacific Ocean as far as the eye can see. Others you will be playing volleyball with the villagers and mucking around with kids who can all say nothing more to you than "Palagi!" and point and laugh.
Your third world village experiences will have you in tears as people who have virtually nothing treat you as an honoured guest and give you everything they have. Your camera will have close to 1,428,553 photographs by the end of your stay and you will spend the best part of the next 6 months cutting and splicing and then producing reams of YouTube clips. Well sort of!
Your accommodation is a nice cosy middle-class Samoan family environment (translation: the neighbours are 20ft away and start their morning devotions singing at 6.00am which conveniently drowns out the cacophony of neighbourhood dogs who delight you in turns through the night. Roosters get ready for the morning about an hour after sunset and you will never accidentally sleep in because the Church just up the road ramps up to a start bang on time at 8.30am, like, as in EVERY morning!)
At the end of your six weeks you will be totally zonked - torn between desperately seeking a really cold Kiwi beer and a decent nights sleep at home and just dying to return for another whack at this dream job!
You're always one for a bit of fun and new experiences so exploring the intricacies of a tropical South Pacific island (where the natives welcome you wherever you go) is just a natural part of being you. Sharing this amazing country with the rest of the world on the web sounds like an adventure just made for you, and you are now wondering what the catch might be.
OK. So there is a catch - the pay rates are Samoan pay rates (please don't even ask - just consider this a paid holiday!) plus you've got to put up with ex-pat Kiwi programmers who work to midnight. (They do mind their own business and know how to have fun every now and then though).
Seriously, helping develop this new UGC tourism portal is a great chance for you to check out Samoa and will help get the country back as the tourism destination to die for it should really be!
Faafetai.
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