The semi-nonymous Phillip H. at DC Dispatches liked the idea behind the Project for Non-Academic Science, but he didn't want to reveal his secret identity. So he wrote up and posted his own interview:
1) What is your non-academic job?
I'm the National Program Coordinator for Protected Species at my Federal Agency. This means I work to bring together a whole host of offices, labs, programs, and people to conserve and recover marine species that are listed under the Endangered Species Act and the Marine Mammal Protection Act.
Go over there to read his answers to the rest of the questions.
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Having spent the last couple of posts talking (in part) about the need to change academic culture, and de-stigmatize non-academic science jobs, here's an attempt to step up and do something direct and productive. No, this won't cost you anything.
Someone from the American Astronomical Society ran across the Project for Non-Academic Science posts here, and is looking for someone to participate in a career panel at their upcoming meeting in
Another PSA from the good folks at Rice Universit
Hi Chad. I have been enjoying your PNAS series.
Your readers might want to take a look at our "Once a Physicist" series of interviews.
We have spoken to basketball players, opera singers and cartoonists...
http://www.iop.org/activity/careers/workinglife/profiles/page_33439.html
Cheers
Hamish