First - two big announcements: 

1. Our last episode will be a Q&A- send us your questions, ideas, puzzles, and dilemmas by December 1st. 
2. We’re running another cohort of SciComm STEP next spring! Applications are live right now on our website (MeteorSciComm.org)! 🥳 

Wanting to get paid real money (plenty of it) is OKAY. Full stop. And, we argue it’s also important if we’re all going to do the collective, hard work of making the world better through scicomm. In this episode, we talk through: 

• Why enjoying getting paid isn’t something to be embarrassed about  
• The caution of worldviews that note “desire is the root of all suffering” 
• A key reframe: anchor jobs are not sell-out jobs; they can be self-determined sponsorship of your passion projects/professional goals 
• Income models are wildly different across realms of scicomm and other types of media/creator jobs; that’s not just okay, it’s great 
• Funding at the systems change/program-building level is hard to access, unpredictable, often exclusive, and rarely sustainable 

Dig in for yourself: 

• Tell us about the dollars that you’d make a difference with! 
• Or, what is something about money that you need or want to know right now? 

Thanks for listening! Money, honey; let’s actually talk about it. 🍯💰Connect with us on BlueSky at @bgmerkle.bsky.social and @vgwschutte.bsky.social.