In current times, forwarding a science career is a much about business as it is about knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs). This statement is not about the business of the institution or company you work for at any given time, but about treating your career as an individual, entrepreneurial business. You need both a business [...]
I’ve now brought my more general bibliography to at least a temporary stable point. In essence, that means that I’ve included enough content to hopefully make it useful, without so much that it becomes cumbersome. I’ll let go of it for awhile and move my focus on to other endeavors.
Along the way of working out [...]
At just over two weeks since my lay-off from LLNL, the lab is already starting to seem a memory seen through the aerosol-induced haze of distance. By focusing and working intensely on other endeavors, such as networking () and the general bibliography, I’ve deliberately accelerated my own psychological perception of the passing of time. Simply [...]
Last post I mentioned starting work on a bibliography more general than my bibliography for massage practitioners. I’ve now got a gateway page and a limited number of content entries for the general bibliography up and running. The listings in so far are mostly on freelancing and writing but that will expand with a little [...]
One of the books I’d gotten when I’d started thinking seriously of freelance writing a couple of years ago was Media Bistro’s first book — “Get a Freelance Life” by Margit Feury Ragland. I didn’t note it when I mentioned Media Bistro a few days ago, but the website includes sections for jobs and profiles, [...]
A week after becoming “roadkill” in LLNL’s involuntary separation process, life goes on. During the past week, I’ve filed a fictitious business name under which to do technical consulting, and rounded up the required two sponsors and sent in my membership application to the National Association of Science Writers (NASW). The latter is a delayed [...]
One of the interesting things mentioned at this year’s Santa Fe Science Writing Workshop was the use of writing a book review as a venue for one’s own essay. John Horgan, who was the leader of my small group at the workshop, did this with his review of Chris Mooney’s The Republican War on Science.
The [...]
I’ve been quiet on this blog lately, but not dormant. The end of May, I was off to the Santa Fe Science Writing Workshop. This allowed me to learn from the faculty and presenters with a great diversity of backgrounds and experience, including NY Times, Scientific American, Knight Media, and freelance work. It was a [...]
For several years now, I’ve written the Massage Politics Sheet. This has been an effective means of getting news, information, and perpsectives on massage regulation out where it’s available. The MPS is a continuing effort, now joined by RamblemuseSM Touch Points (RmTP).
My intention with RmTP is to have a wider perspective. Since, by nature, I’am [...]
