ECP 009 Marti rubio - Spanish, writer, got inspiration by helping Syrian refugees in Greece

"I was thinking about what i wanted to do, what I love, in what I want to spend my life and now I don’t know if I’m in the correct place but now I’m actually happy.” Marti Rubio   What do most people do when they are not happy about their career? Look for another job, right?    Well, some people, like Marti, like being different. And think “how can I help other people and get the inspiration that I need for my career transition?”.    When I asked him to send me a summary of his professional moment, he sent me this message below. It’s a good start for you to understand why I had to interview him on the “exciting careers” podcast 😃 Hope it inspires you, too.    Mari     "I'm journalist and I'm 26 years old.   After a bad work-experience, I decided to change my life.
  I took some time to think about me and about what I wanted to do. HOW???   I always loved to write, that's one of the reasons because I studied Journalism. But journalism, the newspaper journalism, it's not the kind of writing I loved. After a few months, I decided to apply for a Master of Literary Journalism (in the sixties, it was called New Journalism, so now its like a new old new journalism). This journalism explains stories, I mean, it's reality, research, and all the stuff that a Journalist needs to do, but also explained as a novel or as a story. The final project of this master is to write a long reportage, called sometimes "non fiction novel".   To do it, I decided to go to the refugees camps, in the North of Greece. I was there with a NGO of firefighters (called Erec, a rescue team), they were there helping the people giving them food, fresh food (fruits and vegetables). Actually, it was the only NGO that gave vegetables in the camp. There, I met also another NGO of firefighters called Bomberos en acción. They had a little medical center, full of doctors and nurses volunteers. Thanks to these two NGO's I could meet a lot of people, most of them, refugees. And I could talk a lot with them, until I can say that they are friends of mine now. This situation was perfect for me, becuse I could help the people, as I wanted, but also knowing them and their situation, as I wanted for my reportage.   I spent three weeks there, and at the end of my days there, a lot of people knew me and I knew a lot of people. Actually, there is a lot of stories to explain.   Now I'm doing this reportage and I am so happy to do it. First, because I love writting Second, because it was one of the most shocking experiences in my life. Third, because I think that this reportage is like a tribute for the refugees and for the people of the different NGOs.Also, for me, it's a big objective!   We talk about:   - what is “New Journalist” and “non fiction novel”, that he studied his masters in - how/why he decided to go to the Refugee camp in Syria and made it happen with only 3 emails - his habit of writing his ideas and expectations into notebooks to get to know himself and make decisions  - how he writes for himself - the importance of making backups of your creative material - the history behind the refugee camps in north greece - how one could help more easily through smaller organizations - why he decided to join a coworking to write the book - previous jobs he had (documentalista, volunteer  for UNICEF and other humanitarian NGOs) - his passion for writing and mountains - how he started writing through writing songs??? - a book that his dad gave him and inspired him   Remarkable quotes:   "I was thinking about what i wanted to do, what I love, in what I want to spend my life and now I don’t know if I’m in the correct place but now I’m actually happy.”   "A lot of them said to me they prefer go back to Syria than stay in Greece because in Syria you die in one second but in Greece you die slowly. "   - "I want to do this project for me, and only for me and maybe the people I love or people who know about the story or a friend that has heard me speak of the project”   - "Maybe that could happen to me in the next 20 years, maybe it’s a war then I will have to go to Syria.”   - "I don’t have wife, I don’t have children, I don’t have a big responsibility in my life so now is the moment and maybe there will be a lot of moments in the future but now it’s one of the moments”       Notes:   - Humanitarian volunteer at  Idomeni Refugee Camp in North Greece - New Journalism - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona - Periodisme Literari - Firefighters - Equip de Rescat en Emergències de Catalunya (EREC) - he volunteered with (UEC de Barcelona) Unió Excursionista de Catalunya de Barcelona - La Cursa del Bassiero - UNICEF - Truman Capote, author he admires, who wrote best seller “in cold blood”, a non fiction novel - Paula Pimenta, famous writer in Brazil who was in the podcast - Marti's linkedin - https://es.linkedin.com/in/martí-renau-rubió-94a8a3b3/en  - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RGWrEW_UIM  

"I was thinking about what i wanted to do, what I love, in what I want to spend my life and now I don’t know if I’m in the correct place but now I’m actually happy.” Marti Rubio   What do most people do when they are not happy about their career? Look for another job, right?    Well, some people, like Marti, like being different. And think “how can I help other people and get the inspiration that I need for my career transition?”.    When I asked him to send me a summary of his professional moment, he sent me this message below. It’s a good start for you to understand why I had to interview him on the “exciting careers” podcast 😃 Hope it inspires you, too.    Mari     "I'm journalist and I'm 26 years old.   After a bad work-experience, I decided to change my life.   I took some time to think about me and about what I wanted to do. HOW???   I always loved to write, that's one of the reasons because I studied Journalism. But journalism, the newspaper journalism, it's not the kind of writing I loved. After a few months, I decided to apply for a Master of Literary Journalism (in the sixties, it was called New Journalism, so now its like a new old new journalism). This journalism explains stories, I mean, it's reality, research, and all the stuff that a Journalist needs to do, but also explained as a novel or as a story. The final project of this master is to write a long reportage, called sometimes "non fiction novel".   To do it, I decided to go to the refugees camps, in the North of Greece. I was there with a NGO of firefighters (called Erec, a rescue team), they were there helping the people giving them food, fresh food (fruits and vegetables). Actually, it was the only NGO that gave vegetables in the camp. There, I met also another NGO of firefighters called Bomberos en acción. They had a little medical center, full of doctors and nurses volunteers. Thanks to these two NGO's I could meet a lot of people, most of them, refugees. And I could talk a lot with them, until I can say that they are friends of mine now. This situation was perfect for me, becuse I could help the people, as I wanted, but also knowing them and their situation, as I wanted for my reportage.   I spent three weeks there, and at the end of my days there, a lot of people knew me and I knew a lot of people. Actually, there is a lot of stories to explain.   Now I'm doing this reportage and I am so happy to do it. First, because I love writting Second, because it was one of the most shocking experiences in my life. Third, because I think that this reportage is like a tribute for the refugees and for the people of the different NGOs.Also, for me, it's a big objective!   We talk about:   - what is “New Journalist” and “non fiction novel”, that he studied his masters in - how/why he decided to go to the Refugee camp in Syria and made it happen with only 3 emails - his habit of writing his ideas and expectations into notebooks to get to know himself and make decisions  - how he writes for himself - the importance of making backups of your creative material - the history behind the refugee camps in north greece - how one could help more easily through smaller organizations - why he decided to join a coworking to write the book - previous jobs he had (documentalista, volunteer  for UNICEF and other humanitarian NGOs) - his passion for writing and mountains - how he started writing through writing songs??? - a book that his dad gave him and inspired him   Remarkable quotes:   "I was thinking about what i wanted to do, what I love, in what I want to spend my life and now I don’t know if I’m in the correct place but now I’m actually happy.”   "A lot of them said to me they prefer go back to Syria than stay in Greece because in Syria you die in one second but in Greece you die slowly. "   - "I want to do this project for me, and only for me and maybe the people I love or people who know about the story or a friend that has heard me speak of the project”   - "Maybe that could happen to me in the next 20 years, maybe it’s a war then I will have to go to Syria.”   - "I don’t have wife, I don’t have children, I don’t have a big responsibility in my life so now is the moment and maybe there will be a lot of moments in the future but now it’s one of the moments”       Notes:   - Humanitarian volunteer at  Idomeni Refugee Camp in North Greece - New Journalism - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona - Periodisme Literari - Firefighters - Equip de Rescat en Emergències de Catalunya (EREC) - he volunteered with (UEC de Barcelona) Unió Excursionista de Catalunya de Barcelona - La Cursa del Bassiero - UNICEF - Truman Capote, author he admires, who wrote best seller “in cold blood”, a non fiction novel - Paula Pimenta, famous writer in Brazil who was in the podcast - Marti's linkedin - https://es.linkedin.com/in/martí-renau-rubió-94a8a3b3/en  - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RGWrEW_UIM