Sorry to bore you with so many Craigslist job-hunting sagas, but I just felt I needed to share the following post:

Author for Personal Fitness book (Denver)
Reply to: gigs-741671441@craigslist.org
Date: 2008-07-03, 1:46PM MDT

I am looking for an author to partner with myself and a local gym. The scope of the book will be a diary of how I built my body naturally and with the training of a personal trainer to achieve a body makeover.

The goal is to achieve a body makeover and journal the road to it. The journal will be then short formed and edited. This manuscript will be the book and submitted to publishers.

The length of the project will be six months.

I’m looking for an author who has at least one published work and can work closely with myself and the gym to not only make a journal, but an actual book that encompasses my life, the lives of the people at the gym, and the ultimate product….a body built naturally by hard work and dedication.

A motivational book is the goal.
* Location: Denver
* it’s NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests
* Compensation: no pay

So let me just make sure I have this correct. Your (most likely well-sculpted) narcissistic ass wants someone to devote six months of their life to following you around, and writing your memoirs, all so you can boast about your successes in natural body building for NO PAY?! It also appears that you will not accept ‘just anyone’ for the opportunity of a lifetime to follow you around like a puppy dog for six months, you actually have the gall to ask that anyone who applies has at least one published work. Do you really think that someone who has already been published would be the least bit interested in following your over-greased and fake-tanned body all over Denver for half a year?

Hmm… No pay, spending six months with someone who stops to stare at himself in every mirror he sees, conducting interviews with meat heads, writing in a living sweat sock, and somehow being able to morph the story into a motivational tale for other body builders? Call me crazy, but I think I am going to have to pass on this one. I honestly think I would rather work at Jack in the Box for the next six months, god knows it would at least be a more profitable venture.

How am I ever supposed to find a writing gig when these are the kinds of miscreants that post?!

Frustration is setting in…

July 7th, 2008 | Freelance Writing, Craigslist, Employment