What do I want to do when I grow up?
Mar. 1st, 2006 05:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tiger_spotIt's job-hunting time again. And I need to clarify some goals. I want a job that is:
* useful
* interesting
* and pays lots of money
I am willing to settle for two of three.
Useful: Makes some kind of positive difference somewhere in the world. It does not have to be a big difference; it does not have to be a large part of the world. Useful things I have done in the past: taught students of various ages; walked dogs at an animal shelter; random one-shot volunteering.
Interesting: Has some variety; not doing the exact same thing for a year. Pleasant to think about. Challenging. Requires at least some mental effort on my part.
Pays lots of money: Relatively self-explanatory.
Beyond this, I am kind of lost. I have a Bachelor of Science in biology, with a specialization in ecology, evolution, and conservation, that I would very much like to use. I have a surprisingly large amount of education background for someone without any formal training, and I do like explaining things.
I think I should probably narrow things down a bit past "Something vaguely sciency," but I'm not sure how to go about doing that. What are the questions I ought to be asking myself?
* useful
* interesting
* and pays lots of money
I am willing to settle for two of three.
Useful: Makes some kind of positive difference somewhere in the world. It does not have to be a big difference; it does not have to be a large part of the world. Useful things I have done in the past: taught students of various ages; walked dogs at an animal shelter; random one-shot volunteering.
Interesting: Has some variety; not doing the exact same thing for a year. Pleasant to think about. Challenging. Requires at least some mental effort on my part.
Pays lots of money: Relatively self-explanatory.
Beyond this, I am kind of lost. I have a Bachelor of Science in biology, with a specialization in ecology, evolution, and conservation, that I would very much like to use. I have a surprisingly large amount of education background for someone without any formal training, and I do like explaining things.
I think I should probably narrow things down a bit past "Something vaguely sciency," but I'm not sure how to go about doing that. What are the questions I ought to be asking myself?
Tigers
Date: 2006-03-02 11:05 pm (UTC)There appear to be about 460 jobs in California from them. But that's nothing helpful; I hear the land of milk and honey is a big place, and I'm sure most of them are in L.A.
Yar.
Re: Tigers
Date: 2006-03-03 05:51 am (UTC)Looks like there are plenty of things listed in the area, including one in San Francisco I should maybe think about applying for just from a quick glance. (Writing, editing, maintaining a website -- I can do that! Maybe not so much the last bit now, but I do have a website, even if it is in the rawest of raw html. And I have firm ideas about usability.)