case! And if anyone does know an easy route to wealth in the science
communication field then do please pass on the info - and maybe just reply
to
me and not the list - I don't want everyone to know!
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Please do reply to the list. I know someone who is seeking just this
information.
Last week I received a message from someone, who clearly does think I may
have a little experience in this area, asking me how he could convert his
MSc, which included a final year in science communication, into a career in
this business.
While this wasn't exactly the line in the message I received, my first
surprise is that people see these courses as a way into the profession.
Do these courses in science communication really aim to be vocational,
passing on the skills needed to carry out a job? Or are they 'conceptual'?
As each area of the business — magazines, broadcasting, books, PR, museums
etc — needs different skills, I find it hard to believe that one course can
cover all aspects in any depth. Perhaps I am wrong.
My other concern for anyone trying to make a career change break to break
into this business is the dreadful salaries that beginners are offered.
Which is where the book ad came in.
Pay is notoriously poor in Book publishing and is not a lot better
elsewhere. It is also something that has not, as far as I can remember,
cropped up here before. Perhaps that is because everyone is so coy, and
leaps back in horror when someone blunders in and asks why a job ad misses
out the most important, for many, piece of information.
Perhaps I should try to assemble some numbers for the relevant bit of the
ABSW's web site.
MK
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