Bitmob Intern Needed

By Dan Hsu
Tuesday, 01 September 2009

We recently brought on an intern here at Bitmob. But we've been so busy, it's either we dump all this extra work on poor, unpaid Alejandro to spare our own sanity at the expense of his, or we bring on another poor, unpaid sucker to help out.

So yeah, we're looking for editorial intern #2. This person should have a good, dependable work ethic; a good grasp of English/punctuation/grammar; and some free time (but not necessarily full time) every day to dedicate toward Bitmob.

We already mentioned the unpaid part, right? Sorry about that, but being an intern with us isn't without its advantages. You'll be able to list us on your resume, you'll get more direct feedback on your work and writing, and you'll have real-world, start-up experience with an online gaming publication. (You may have heard of a few ex-EGM interns who have gone on to real jobs in the industry, like Xbox's Kathleen Sanders, GameTrailers' Brooks Huber, and Area 5's Jay Frechette.)

If you're interested, send us an email at letters [at] bitmob [dot] com with the subject head: Bitmob Intern. Tell us why you want or deserve to be our intern, and feel free to include a few links to writing samples as well. Let us know of your daily and weekly availability, too. (It doesn't matter where you live, by the way -- as long as we can communicate during the day, West Coast time.)

And if you never got a good handle on writing articles because you were too busy mastering PHP programming, we do need some development help as well....

Comments (43)

Shoe, prepare to be bombarded!!! smilies/cheesy.gif

Lance Darnell , September 02, 2009

Does proximity matter?

James DeRosa , September 02, 2009

Work...School...work...man, if only it were summer... smilies/sad.gif

Suriel Vazquez , September 02, 2009

I second James' question.

Alex R. Cronk-Young , September 02, 2009

Then me and the new intern can duke it out for the editorial staff's love and admiration!

Alejandro Quan-Madrid , September 02, 2009

Good point... proximity doesn't matter at all, as long as you can work during our West Coast schedule. I updated the story.

Dan Hsu , September 02, 2009

Too bad english isn't my first language and that I'm not in a US timezone, and that I have both work and school! Best of luck to you guys though.

Christian Rydberg , September 02, 2009

Man, if I had any confidence in my ability to take responsibilities seriously, I'd be all over this.

Benjamin Torrey , September 02, 2009

Any idea how many hours daily/weekly we'd be needed? I'd love to apply, but running my own site (which is also unpaid, thankless work ) takes up a good chunk of my free time. I wouldn't want to take on more than I can handle by assuming you'd need me for far fewer hours than you actually would.

Also, since I'd be working remotely, what sort of tasks would be expected? It's not like I can run and get you guys coffee and sandwiches from Michigan or anything - mostly proofreading stuff, I would assume?

Rob Thomas , September 02, 2009

What types of writing samples do you want, like only writing centered around video game writing? Or do you want to see something non-video game related as well (to see our range of writing skills)?

Adam Jorgensen , September 02, 2009

@Rob: Good point. Perhaps you can just email me a picture of a tasty sandwich every day at 12:30.

Brett Bates , September 02, 2009

The intern would be helping us post stories, maybe some other busy tasks during the day. We don't have an exact list yet. Intern stuff.

Could be two hours a day, could be 6+ hours a day, depends, but we'll be flexible (but this person will have to be dependable). But we're probably giving Alejandro too much work right now, so we'll have to split it up.

Dan Hsu , September 02, 2009

My wife will hate me if I get it but I'll send in an application in the morning.

P.S. She won't really hate me, so you can pick me.

Alex R. Cronk-Young , September 02, 2009

@Shoe Tempting, but I'll really have to mull this over some more. I'd love the chance to work with you all, and the ability to be a remote intern is nice, what with me not living on the West coast anymore, but I also don't want to commit to something that I later have to back out of. *Sigh* Decisions, decisions.

Any idea for when the deadline for submissions will be?

Rob Thomas , September 02, 2009

But... arent interns hired to be bossed around, fetching things, polishing shoes, become punching bags, Washers and/or toilets?

Why would you put your intern to work? I have my own here @ the office, in fact, "it" is writing this article for me as I dictate verbatim what I want to say here.

I guess Bitmob is one of those Start-ups with "morals" and "human decency".

Well Good Luck Shoe. Let me know how it turns out.

STFU AND TYPE THAT INTERN. YOU BETTER NOT HAVE TYPED THAT. GO AHEAD AND BAKE ME ANOTHER CHEESECAKE, and CHOCOLATE MILK THIS TIME, with the PINK CUP LIKE I SAID.

IM SERIOUS YOU BETTER NOT HAVE TYPED THA.....

Joshua Balcaceres , September 02, 2009

I saw this. Thought nah (I was afraid of failing in front of the Bitmob overlords). I then reconsidered a mere 0.37 minutes later, opened my less childish named email account, let the thoughts flow, and shipped an email to Bitmob.

Timothy Adema , September 02, 2009

E-mail sent, sirs. Pretty sure I just landed this gig unless a ringer comes in and snatches defeat from the jaws of victory.

Joshua O'Neal , September 02, 2009

you have plenty of interns posting in the Mobfeed... hint hint

Aaron Molloy , September 02, 2009

We treat our interns well at Bitmob. Right, Alejandro? I've only asked you to deliver a decapitated horse head to Lance once, right?

Jason Wilson , September 02, 2009

This sucks.

I just don't have the time for this.

School is my primary concern.

James DeRosa , September 02, 2009

Submission complete!

Jonathan Hunt , September 02, 2009

What exactly does being an intern entail? Do you provide 'it' some material and say "write about this INTERN DO IT NOW!!!" or do they have to ass-pull ideas themselves? I'd love to take a crack at this, but haven't exactly got a lot of money to go spend on games so I can write stuff about them.

I actually have a LOT of free time to write, and lately have started an anime blog to give myself something to do. I'm also on the west coast. I wonder if I could hack this.

Steven Lippert , September 02, 2009

Submission sent and fingers crossed

Mark T. Whitney , September 02, 2009

Does merely being an observer of the Bitmob count as a major detriment?

Stephen Liu , September 02, 2009

I wish I could give it a go and put my name in, but alas, I have no time. Good luck to those who apply. Treat us well once you get in.

Andrew Hiscock , September 02, 2009

Submitted. Now excuse me while I stare at my inbox all day.

Alex R. Cronk-Young , September 02, 2009

If only my career didn't often preclude me from being available during the day for extended periods of time...

Good luck to all of the applicants. I'm sure they will have no trouble finding an interested, talented person to fill this role.

Jay Henningsen , September 02, 2009

Sadly, I also fall in the "no time for hardly anything, let alone THIS" boat. With school and work it's just too much - usually I write my blogs during downtime at work, but fielding calls for an internship would probably be taking things a little too far.

Good luck to those applying!

Garret Staus , September 02, 2009

Wish I could do this. Sadly I have no writing skills or time to do this. smilies/sad.gif

So I wish the person who does get this internship loads of luck.

Toby Davis , September 02, 2009

Damn,I so want to do this,but this is my final year in school so I have to focus on that!

Also I live in Ireland so the time differences might have been too great anyway.

Good luck to all those applying!

Ultan O'Connell , September 02, 2009

The interns have it the easiest here a Bitmob.

Rich McGrath , September 02, 2009

I'm on the fence I don't mind the free part, I already help run another site for Valve just not sure I could do 2 sites for free. Wife wants me to make money. I just honestly like this site and what you guys have done.

Aaron Molloy , September 02, 2009

@Jason

We treat our interns well at Bitmob. Right, Alejandro? I've only asked you to deliver a decapitated horse head to Lance once, right?

haha, yeah, he was pretty freaked out.

Alejandro Quan-Madrid , September 02, 2009

Is there some sort of deadline on this? Or when we see a new intern we will know not to apply anymore?

Eric Kotval , September 02, 2009

There's not really a deadline...just when we find one, we find one.

Dan Hsu , September 02, 2009

Cool, well consider me applied. I'm in desperate need of an internship. This would be a Godsend if I got it.

Eric Kotval , September 02, 2009

Hell yah I'm going to apply!

Omar Yusuf , September 02, 2009

Yeah, I did not appreciate the decapitated horse head at all, but like the note said - I deserved it

Lance Darnell , September 02, 2009

Nervous, nervous, nervous.

Mike Minotti , September 03, 2009

I just sent mine in. Fingers crossed!

Adam Jorgensen , September 03, 2009

damnit...i'd love to but i'm writing too much as it is! Everyone storm this man.

Isaiah Taylor , September 03, 2009

I have various writing samples that aren't really "videogame-y" writing samples, should I write something up or will you guys ask for more from me if you like my initial e-mail?

Sam Barsanti , September 06, 2009