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Si tratta dell'azienda che ci ha portato in giro per due settimane per i trails più belli del pianeta. Sono super professionali e al tempo stesso si respira un'aria di sana avventura e amicizia. Se volete farvi un anno "off", non c'è occasione migliore che catapultarvi in Sudamerica.
Il testo è in inglese. Non lo traduco perchè chi non lo parla non avrebbe speranze di ricevere il posto di lavoro.
/*The pressures of your job got you down, the boss trying to squeeze you
for more hours, more work, and all for less money?
Fantasizing about taking a year or more off from it all for the
adventure of a lifetime?
How does getting paid to ride your bike in South America sound?
*/
Gravity Assisted Mountain Biking (www.gravitybolivia.com) is the premier (and most famous)
operator of downhill mountain bike tours in the Bolivian Andes.
We are mentioned and highly recommended in EVERY SINGLE DAMN guidebook
to South America and Bolivia! We have been featured in more than 70
magazine and newspaper articles in publications around the world … not
to mention five television programs and several movies!
Recent successes and greater-than-expected growth have encouraged us to
expand our operations and bring forward several phases of our World
Domination plans. To guarantee further rapid growth we want to pull
together a kick-arse team of motivated, independent, proactive,
flexible, resilient people for the end of the 2009 season and to take us
through 2010.
We are looking for people with PERSONALITY, PATIENCE, SOCIAL SKILLS,
plus a SENSE OF HUMOR and ADVENTURE… oh, and you have to be able to ride
a mountain bike, have good mechanicing skills, be First Aid qualified,
and have rope rescue skills. Having some basic Spanish language skills
would give you an advantage, but it’s definitely not essential.
Note: Not So Secret Update: - Gravity has expanded to Peru! Guides who
sign up to work in Bolivia now have the opportunity to do one or more
3-month stints guiding trails around Cuzco, Peru right next door to
world-famous Machu Picchu. This doubles the number of trails you get to
hit! Check out the rides on www.gravityperu.com.
*Positions available, starting yesterday, include: *
*"Action Heroes" (3-4x Mountain Bike Guides):* Nine months minimum
commitment, positions available NOW. Yup, get paid to ride downhill 3-4
days a week (a 60km downhill ride with 3600m vertical descent). The
hours are long, the majority of riding is down dirt roads with beginner
riders (this ride:
YouTube - Mountain Biking down Bolivia's Death Road as seen on ABC
the pay won't make you rich, but the adventure is real. Solid riding
ability, an ability to calmly coach nervous beginners, a good sense of
humor in the face of problems, a genuine enthusiasm for mountain biking,
and a high tolerance for the idiosyncrasies of the great unwashed
public, plus good trailside mechanicing, current first-aid and
rope-rescue qualifications are all a must. Some Spanish language skills
would help, plus a willingness to learn Spanglish.
*"M" (1-2x Front Office Sales People):* Nine months minimum commitment,
positions available NOW. Yup, get paid poorly to sit in a small, cold
office for 40+ hours a week and help backpackers and adventure travelers
sign up for the ride of their lives. NEVER boring, always frenetic,
requiring an organized mind and an ability to be 100% accurate with
paperwork while swamped by hordes of over-excited travelers. Basic
Spanish language skills would help immensely.
*"Pinky" (1x Manager):* Nine or more months commitment, position
available NOW. Challenge your patience, persistence, organizational
skills, and ingenuity helping to tame the daily chaos at Gravity
Central, rushing around on secret missions that take 10x longer than you
could ever imagine possible! Fantastic exposure to the realities of
operating a successful, rapidly growing adventure tourism operation in a
third world country with very different cultural appreciation for exotic
concepts such as time, quality and customer service. Requires an
individual with the Stamina of a Horse, the Multi-Tasking Ability of an
Octopus, and the Cunning of a Kangaroo in a Minefield. Good to excellent
Spanish language skills required. Duties include logistics coordination,
including liaison with above-mentioned Guides and Office staff, as well
as the Bolivian guides, drivers, suppliers, and assistants.
For the right individuals (or couples) Gravity is able to offer:
reasonably priced housing in Bolivia's Centre of Gravity including cable
tv and internet, hook ups with deals from our sponsors (Kona Mountain
Bikes, Santa Cruz Bicycles, Hayes Brakes, Marzocchi, Dragon Optical, to
name a few), enough pay that you can probably break-even, and maybe save
a little, occasional opportunities to travel around Bolivia, regular
opportunities to race (races like these:
YouTube - Ima Trail
for one of our favorite tracks). and if you aren't careful ... more work
than you can probably handle! What's not included - your flight out
here, travel/medical insurance while you are here, work-visa costs, and
tools of the trade (guide bike, guiding tools, uniform, etc.).
If you are interested in any of the above openings, first read this....
1. The pay really is not great by international standards, its really
only enough to break-even on ... until about your 6th month, by which
time you will be putting away a bit of money, and if you are reasonably
restrained you could leave at about the one-year stage with a couple of
thousand US$ in savings.
2. Given that a few people in the last couple of years have flaked on
us, we now offer a couple of bonuses during your time with us, one is
paid out when you complete the work visa process, and the other when you
reach or pass the amount of time we agreed as being your contract.
3. It really helps to EITHER come here with about US$1000 in the
bank/hand to set yourself up OR bring a beater guide bike, and all the
usual personal guiding tools and about US$500 in the bank. If you don't
do this then you might feel the pinch when you initially set yourself
up, invest in the work-visa etc.
If you are still interested, please email: /*[email protected]*/
ASAP with:
1. Which of the above positions you are interested in.
2. Some photos of you in action.
3. A brief background of your riding, guiding, rope, rescue, mechancing
and first aid experience and training.
If we pick you as someone who seems to have the right stuff, then we
will email you a much more comprehensive guide information pack and
questionnaire.
Cheers
Alistair "el jefe" Matthew
YouTube - Ima Trail
[email protected]
Si tratta dell'azienda che ci ha portato in giro per due settimane per i trails più belli del pianeta. Sono super professionali e al tempo stesso si respira un'aria di sana avventura e amicizia. Se volete farvi un anno "off", non c'è occasione migliore che catapultarvi in Sudamerica.
Il testo è in inglese. Non lo traduco perchè chi non lo parla non avrebbe speranze di ricevere il posto di lavoro.
/*The pressures of your job got you down, the boss trying to squeeze you
for more hours, more work, and all for less money?
Fantasizing about taking a year or more off from it all for the
adventure of a lifetime?
How does getting paid to ride your bike in South America sound?
*/
Gravity Assisted Mountain Biking (www.gravitybolivia.com) is the premier (and most famous)
operator of downhill mountain bike tours in the Bolivian Andes.
We are mentioned and highly recommended in EVERY SINGLE DAMN guidebook
to South America and Bolivia! We have been featured in more than 70
magazine and newspaper articles in publications around the world … not
to mention five television programs and several movies!
Recent successes and greater-than-expected growth have encouraged us to
expand our operations and bring forward several phases of our World
Domination plans. To guarantee further rapid growth we want to pull
together a kick-arse team of motivated, independent, proactive,
flexible, resilient people for the end of the 2009 season and to take us
through 2010.
We are looking for people with PERSONALITY, PATIENCE, SOCIAL SKILLS,
plus a SENSE OF HUMOR and ADVENTURE… oh, and you have to be able to ride
a mountain bike, have good mechanicing skills, be First Aid qualified,
and have rope rescue skills. Having some basic Spanish language skills
would give you an advantage, but it’s definitely not essential.
Note: Not So Secret Update: - Gravity has expanded to Peru! Guides who
sign up to work in Bolivia now have the opportunity to do one or more
3-month stints guiding trails around Cuzco, Peru right next door to
world-famous Machu Picchu. This doubles the number of trails you get to
hit! Check out the rides on www.gravityperu.com.
*Positions available, starting yesterday, include: *
*"Action Heroes" (3-4x Mountain Bike Guides):* Nine months minimum
commitment, positions available NOW. Yup, get paid to ride downhill 3-4
days a week (a 60km downhill ride with 3600m vertical descent). The
hours are long, the majority of riding is down dirt roads with beginner
riders (this ride:
YouTube - Mountain Biking down Bolivia's Death Road as seen on ABC
the pay won't make you rich, but the adventure is real. Solid riding
ability, an ability to calmly coach nervous beginners, a good sense of
humor in the face of problems, a genuine enthusiasm for mountain biking,
and a high tolerance for the idiosyncrasies of the great unwashed
public, plus good trailside mechanicing, current first-aid and
rope-rescue qualifications are all a must. Some Spanish language skills
would help, plus a willingness to learn Spanglish.
*"M" (1-2x Front Office Sales People):* Nine months minimum commitment,
positions available NOW. Yup, get paid poorly to sit in a small, cold
office for 40+ hours a week and help backpackers and adventure travelers
sign up for the ride of their lives. NEVER boring, always frenetic,
requiring an organized mind and an ability to be 100% accurate with
paperwork while swamped by hordes of over-excited travelers. Basic
Spanish language skills would help immensely.
*"Pinky" (1x Manager):* Nine or more months commitment, position
available NOW. Challenge your patience, persistence, organizational
skills, and ingenuity helping to tame the daily chaos at Gravity
Central, rushing around on secret missions that take 10x longer than you
could ever imagine possible! Fantastic exposure to the realities of
operating a successful, rapidly growing adventure tourism operation in a
third world country with very different cultural appreciation for exotic
concepts such as time, quality and customer service. Requires an
individual with the Stamina of a Horse, the Multi-Tasking Ability of an
Octopus, and the Cunning of a Kangaroo in a Minefield. Good to excellent
Spanish language skills required. Duties include logistics coordination,
including liaison with above-mentioned Guides and Office staff, as well
as the Bolivian guides, drivers, suppliers, and assistants.
For the right individuals (or couples) Gravity is able to offer:
reasonably priced housing in Bolivia's Centre of Gravity including cable
tv and internet, hook ups with deals from our sponsors (Kona Mountain
Bikes, Santa Cruz Bicycles, Hayes Brakes, Marzocchi, Dragon Optical, to
name a few), enough pay that you can probably break-even, and maybe save
a little, occasional opportunities to travel around Bolivia, regular
opportunities to race (races like these:
YouTube - Ima Trail
for one of our favorite tracks). and if you aren't careful ... more work
than you can probably handle! What's not included - your flight out
here, travel/medical insurance while you are here, work-visa costs, and
tools of the trade (guide bike, guiding tools, uniform, etc.).
If you are interested in any of the above openings, first read this....
1. The pay really is not great by international standards, its really
only enough to break-even on ... until about your 6th month, by which
time you will be putting away a bit of money, and if you are reasonably
restrained you could leave at about the one-year stage with a couple of
thousand US$ in savings.
2. Given that a few people in the last couple of years have flaked on
us, we now offer a couple of bonuses during your time with us, one is
paid out when you complete the work visa process, and the other when you
reach or pass the amount of time we agreed as being your contract.
3. It really helps to EITHER come here with about US$1000 in the
bank/hand to set yourself up OR bring a beater guide bike, and all the
usual personal guiding tools and about US$500 in the bank. If you don't
do this then you might feel the pinch when you initially set yourself
up, invest in the work-visa etc.
If you are still interested, please email: /*[email protected]*/
ASAP with:
1. Which of the above positions you are interested in.
2. Some photos of you in action.
3. A brief background of your riding, guiding, rope, rescue, mechancing
and first aid experience and training.
If we pick you as someone who seems to have the right stuff, then we
will email you a much more comprehensive guide information pack and
questionnaire.
Cheers
Alistair "el jefe" Matthew
YouTube - Ima Trail
[email protected]
