An Underpaid Work of Staggering Genius 😏
Jobs 👉 NASA, WashPo, APL 👈
Gigs and Internships:
Kinda an old post, but WashPo is hiring an Instagram Editor specifically for their new climate account.
A writing gig, but NASA Goddard is hiring an earth science writer in the DC area.
Ball Aerospace is looking for a multimedia designer to make visuals about satellite stuff, doesn’t seem as military-industrial-complex focused as other gigs would be. Broomfield, CO, also seems super nice.
Not a multimedia gig, but PopSci is looking for newshounds for a tech writer job and a science writer job.
The Applied Physics Lab at Johns Hopkins is looking for a full-stack comms person for their space science outreach, and they want 10+ years of experience, but don’t list a salary. So start negotiating at $100k. I’m not even kidding.
Tradeoffs is looking for a podcast producer to work on feature stories around health policy and who it affects.
Hu$tle Tips:
High Country News is accepting pitches on how labor is changing in the American West.
UnDark recently put out a call for freelancers - they do extended podcast episodes about science that “illuminates.”
Tech Radar is looking for freelancers to help out on some articles.
Early career folks! The Evert Clark/Seth Payne Award for young journos is accepting entries for $1,000 in prize money by June 30th.
Kind-of a weird one, but Anonymous Was A Woman is free money for environmental artists who identify as women.
Boss Makes a Dollar, I Make a Dime
That’s why we organize on company time.
Harvard Business Review has some good advice on workplace politics. I really liked this list on red flags in interviews.
You know when you’re listening to a podcast (looking at you, Gone Medieval) and one person’s voice is MUCH LOUDER than another’s? It’s because their editor didn’t normalize or level the audio. Here’s an explainer on how to do that.
What Got Me Through Last Week:
I’m reading “Men At Arms” by Terry Pratchett.
One of my favorite quotes from the book:
Take boots, for example. He earned $38 a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost $50. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about $10.
Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.
But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford $50 had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in 10 years’ time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.
This was Capt. Samuel Vimes’ boots theory of socioeconomic unfairness.
GNU Terry Pratchett