Comments on: Work today, Maybe get paid next year (Maybe?)

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 16:49:06 +0000

I think your time will eventually come. If you are passionate about what you do, in time you will be noticed. You have many plus’s not related to your education going for you. For one, your female and for another your attractive. For a future television program
(which I no longer have or watch) people will want to hear science from you rather than a bearded, frizzy haired professor who can’t speak well. Listening to your Astronomy PODcasts, your voice is calm, assertive, and you project your knowledge of the subject matter extremely well. Your doing a great job. Patience grasshopper….

By: David

David — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 03:01:06 +0000

Listening to your podcasts, it sounds like you really like your work. That is more important than the money. It is so hard to find a way to get paid doing what you like let alone love to do. Keep doing what you are doing and the money will eventually come.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 21:19:00 +0000

Perhaps you could “get the word out” that you would be available for speaking engagements, radio work, etc. Get in touch with the planetariums around there and get to know the people, if you haven’t already.
I know that if you lived closer, our planetarium would use you. Usually they employ local actors, but they might love to have a real astronomer.
We have a problem with the local media only because we aren’t “news” to them, but the meteorologists are always calling us for information regarding astronomical events, and forwarding us emails when they viewers “see something in the sky” or have questions.
Heck, I was unavailable last Saturday, or I would have been on the local morning news talking about the Venus/Saturn Conjunction, which we were featuring at our observatory’s public night.
Most of the local media know by now to come to us for their “astronomical needs.” Actually they bypass the planetarium most of the time.

By: Jorge Schrauwen

Jorge Schrauwen — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 10:29:40 +0000

That explains some wtf? I had while we were talking about this a while back

By: astrogeek

astrogeek — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 04:48:23 +0000

I hear the way to break into media is start small and start locally. Perhaps a local radio station might be interested in a 1-hour/week astronomy call in show. Just a thought.