For some reason these mountain bike job posts always seem to come to me on Fridays -¬† which is too bad since most of us dream of these types of jobs on Monday mornings :(. This week’s job is perhaps the one job that will make you question your career choice the most – Mountain bike gear tester.
Yep, the folks at Bicycling Magazine are really rubbing it in through their blog. The crew went down to Moab last week to test bikes and gear for the Editor’s Choice issue set to hit newsstands in May and it sounds like a brutal task (that last part was sarcastic if you can’t tell). Riding the latest bikes against an epic background and getting paid to do it? Sounds too good to be true!
Once the riding is done though, it’s back to the office to slave over the word processor for hours getting your adjectives just right (“should I say the bike was gnarly, rad, or both?”).¬† Seriously though, you probably need to be a great writer FIRST and a gnarly mountain biker second to write for a big time mag like Bicycling. I wonder if they scout bloggers for their farm team 😉
