As I mentioned a little while ago, Tofugu is looking to hire an unpaid virtual (as in, you can work from anywhere) summer intern to help us out! Tofugu is successful, profitable, and growing (with two whole employees… that’s like, 1 employee plus 400 employees minus 399 employees). We’re looking for someone to spend 5-10 hours a week to:

• Research Japanese language and culture.
• Write weekly posts for Tofugu.
• Help build and maintain TextFugu.
• Work on other miscellaneous things as required.
• Work on one larger project (decided by you and us together!)

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What will you get out of all this back-breaking hard labor? Well, other than the warm, fuzzy feeling of self-gratification for a job well-done, there are also plenty of other benefits. If you are picked for our summer internship, you will:

• Gain insight into blogging as a business
• Learn about Tofugu’s style of marketing (super secret!)
• Learn how to start / work on your own blog, and be one of the few people in the world who know how to make a living off blogging.
• Get the opportunity to see the inner workings of Tofugu firsthand.
• Stick it to those boring old newspapers.
• Gain some real startup experience and learn about running your own small company.
• Get a TextFugu Forever membership, free of the normal $120 charge.
• Get to show your work to hundreds of thousands of people.

As for what we want, we’re just mostly looking for hard workers. We believe that almost everything except hard work can be taught (it’s an internship after all, so there should be some learning in there somewhere). Your writing ability should also be good (but not stuffy) and you should be a net native, so to speak. Oh, and hopefully you’re an interesting (nice) person, too!

Now, If all of that sounds great to you and you’re willing to bear the hard labor of working for one of the coolest Japan blogs out there, then please click on the button below and fill out the application:

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So get crackin’ on those applications! We will only be accepting applications for a little over a week, so please have your application in by June 17. Good luck!

P.S. We’ll pretty much only hire interns who follow our Twitter.

P.P.S. Oh, and Facebook, too.