Jason,
I'm also 45, with a Master's, and have worked in ecology/conservation for long
time. I also decided to
re-enroll in grad school last year for a PhD, 20 years after getting that
Master's. As perhaps Earth's
only Harvard/UC Riverside alum (BA/MSc, resp.), I'll second what Mike Ellis
It's hard to say that I've made a career out of ecology yet, since I'm only
30, but I'll chime in with my experience in response to Asia's post.
TL;DR: You don't have to have a continuous sequence of jobs in
ecology/conservation in order to have a career in these fields. There are
plenty of jobs
In June, I graduated from the University of California Davis with a B.S. in
Evolution, Ecology, and Biodiversity. I just want to express that even in
our own countries, it is hard to find work in conservation, or even ecology
in general. No one I know in my major has a job lined up in our field
Malcolm McCallum's reply was certainly thorough. But in response to his initial
question, what do you mean by success, I should clarify. In my OP, I referred
to unpaid, or even pay-to-play internships and positions in the tropics. What I
meant by success, in that context, was: moving on from
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Good to hear advice shared, here's some more via a very recent Mongabay
followup to that 2017 Mongabay article folks are citing,
‘Not all doom and gloom’: Q with conservation job market researchers
- *Intense competition, a flood of unpaid internships, a prevalence of
short-term work, high
Hello Ecologgers!
I know this thread was originally meant for conservation in the tropics,
but I think it is indicative of many other areas of biology as well. The
main thing I would like to add is that teaching biology is becoming a more
viable pathway for many, including myself. And because
Hi all,
I also never usually respond to these threads, but I thought I’d chime in
since I’m one of the young biologists who “made it” as a tropical
ecologist/conservationist and since several people asked for stories. I’ll
be 30 next week, and for the past few years I’ve been the Director of
I'm surprised no one has posted a link to this 2017 article from MongaBay
yet (and apologies if someone already has and I missed it):
https://news.mongabay.com/2017/08/a-rich-persons-profession-young-conservationists-struggle-to-make-it/
If I have any advice it is:
a) do NOT go into debt to
Hi Ecologers,
Yikes, I felt a bit down after reading this thread! I usually don’t respond
to these but wanted to tell the OP and other students/recent grads in their
position to not give up, even though yes, it sometimes is extremely
difficult to get that long sought after full time paid job
Hello Ecolog-ers
This email thread seemed relevant to my own experiences and after skimming
through to see some depressing responses sprinkled with some overly
dramatic pessimism and discouragement, I thought I would give my own take
on this.
I'm a 4th year PhD student working on a
Thanks for posting about this, especially from the perspective of someone
trying to start out in tropical conservation.
I started out some years ago, before so many NGOs had caught onto the fact
that they could get recent graduates to work for free, or even to pay a "fee"
to work
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Now that the academic year has ended, the big wave of seasonal field jobs has
abated, as have the inevitable posts by graduating students hoping to find one.
And I have to admit, I have gotten a little jaded. I put myself in the shoes of
one of those young people...
...Tropical rainforests have
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