Do you have a journal (actual paper, not a blog) where you babble on about random stuff that has to do with being nerdy-fabulous in New York? Well, Choire Sicha is desperately seeking your contributions for the New York Observer. There's just one catch: no college grads. You can have attended college and then dropped out, or applied and never gone, or you can just have spent your post-high school years fishing upstate and/or roaming about Washington Square Park begging for change, playing chess, and bumming cigs from NYU kids.

You should probably be smart-ish (or just know lots of large words) — but just don't be "degreed." Sicha has enough well-bred intelligence floating around his desk (office? we don't know) for now.

College drop-outs and never-applieds are invited to pitch or send, for consideration, stories to The Daily Transom at csicha@observer.com. Written is fine; if not, a good pitch—since you don't have no prof to tell you—is about three sentences long, contains the nugget of news obtained or sought, shows flair, and has nothing to do with any of the following:

· Celebrity poker
· Food-eating competitions
· Ryan Adams
· MisShapes
· Janice Dickinson
· Stunt karaoke
· The Museum of Sex
· Speed-dating
· "9/11"
· MySpace
· A strange coincidence.

Email any questions. Proof of non-attendance is required. Pay is somewhere between "a pittance" and "sure better than a day's work digging ditches." Opportunities for advancement not un-possible.

A word of advice: your chances of landing gig will possibly be improved if you show up for a face-to-face drunk and/or on drugs.

Screw J-School: Transom Seeks College No-Gos, Drop-Outs for Digital Apprenticeships [The Transom, New York Observer]