The Ombudsman Needs a Job!

If you will allow me to digress from my whining about how the video game journalism industry is going to hell, please read this post about how I want to get paid to help stop the video game journalism industry from going to hell. If you won't allow me to digress, well, stop reading.



In May of 2004 I graduated from The University of Maryland, College Park with a double degree in computer science and journalism. While I wish I could stay in school forever, whiling away my time playing games and writing reviews for the student newspaper, it's time to move on.



To that end, I'm officially putting myself on the market for a paid position writing about the video game industry.



Why you should hire me, you ask? What can I do for you? Well...:

• I can write consumer-focused reviews (be they raves, pans or just off beat)



• I can write artistically-focused critiques (about dancing, platforming, fighting...)
  
  
• I can write previews (both glowing and slightly less glowing)



• I can write news (about video games or not)



• I can write editorials (for corporate giants and small, independent sites)



• I can write features (on web-based games or web-based programming competitions, for instance)



• I can write analysis (and meta-analysis)



• I can write profiles (and meta-profiles)



• I can write popular fan-boy propaganda



• I can write, uh, intelligent fan fiction



• I can write dozens of other articles about video games and not about video games

I would be happy to do any of these things for your publication, or anything else you may want me to do: copy editing, databse management, web site design/programming, layout, or Ombudsman-style columns (to name a few areas that I have experience in!)



I am willing to freelance and I am willing to relocate. I am NOT willing to work for free (I've already done that). I am looking for full-time or part-time work that I can start to make a living off of, even if it's not a comfortable living. (Read: It doesn't have to be highly paid)



I've wanted to be in this business ever since I first subscribed to Nintendo Power. Now is as good a time as any to throw my full weight behind that dream.



Let me know if you have any openings...



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