Marti Rubio - Spanish, writer, got career inspiration by helping Syrian refugees in Greece.

What do most people do when they are not happy about their career? Look for another job, right? Well, some people, like Marti, who I met at Cloud Coworking in Barcelona, 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. Hope it inspires you, too. 

"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 NGOs of firefighters (...).

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 Journalism” and “non fiction novel”

- how/why he decided to go to the Refugee camp in Greece and did it after 3 emails

- his habit of writing ideas and expectations into notebooks to know himself and make decisions

- how one could help more easily through smaller organizations

- why join a coworking to write the book

- previous jobs he had (documentalista, volunteer  for UNICEF and other humanitarian NGOs)

- his passion for mountains

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”