 During his studies he worked as a corrector and translator for the Carlsen-Verlag (Carlsen-press).Sick explains in the foreword of the Carlsen anniversary issue “Spirou & Fantasio” that the work experience as a translator and corrector coined his sense for orthography and punctuation.In 1995 Bastian Sick started working as a documentation journalist in the photo archive of German news magazine "Der Spiegel".