Jason,
I share your same predicament. I completed a technician job this past
September and who knows how many jobs I've applied to. For me though one of
the things I've done to make it through the time (partly because student
loans required that I do something) was to go to a temp agency. After
Let me start off by saying that I am in the same boat and hope we both get
some worthwhile answers here. I recently graduated and have an internship
from April till July but after that I'm completely lost as to what would
help my employment chances. I have a few friends with wildlife degrees and
The Information Science Program at the Lab of Ornithology is seeking a
Postdoctoral Associate to work on macro ecological questions related to
spatiotemporal determinants of bird species' distributions at a continental
scale within North America. The exact research questions will be determined
I graduated in 2007 from St Lawrence University with my B.S. (double major
in Biology and Environmental Studies) and was in the same boat. Essentially,
as soon as you are hired and begin one seasonal job, the best thing to do is
start applying, or at least looking, for the next. You are competing
Tenure Track Faculty Position in Water Sustainability
Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine invites
applications for a tenure track faculty position in the Department of
Environmental Health Sciences at the Assistant or Associate level, with
rank determined by
Jason and all others in a similar predicament:
In 1960 I quit a job paying $1,000 a month and took a seasonal GS-4 job
paying $4,440 per year doing white-pine delineation (survey) work. I was
soon promoted to GS-5. It was the best job I ever had, and I still use what
I learned on it every
Apologies for cross-posting
Japanese readers of this mailing list may be interested to know that the
Japanese translation of A Beginner's Guide to R' is now available from:
http://www.springer.jp/978-4-431-10220-5
Kind regards,
Alain Zuur
University of Alabama: M.S. opportunity in benthic nitrogen cycling for Summer
2011. We have a
position available in the Biogeochemistry Lab
(http://bama.ua.edu/~bmortazavi) that currently has active projects in
nearshore coastal waters. The
work is focused on effects eutrophication and oil
Hi all,
It's so nice to hear from other seasonal technicians! I work as a plant
technician and as much as I love winter, it can be a problem. After
college, I was able to find an awesome job working year-round in Western
Washington -- it was a revegetation job and we spent our winters
planting.
Jason, David, and John (and Ecolog):
I forgot that when I decided to give up my cushy high-paid job, I
individually typed, on an old Underwood typewriter, forty applications to
forty National Forest offices. I got one response, but all I needed was one
job. I'm sure glad I didn't stop at 39.
Hi Jason,
Aren't you the one who asked the Conservation vs. Gardening question?
You've got a knack for asking good questions. I've been wondering exactly
the same thing, given the difficulty of getting any sort of job academic or
otherwise post-phD, (Google the number of articles that have come
I just wanted to say how much I admire the dedication of you and the other
seasonal technicians who've responded to wildlife / conservation biology.
Thank you for keeping up the good work!
--Ruchira
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Merran pantscr...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
It's so nice to
There are only two ways to get ahead, but neither gives instant
gratification...
1) keep getting more education whether it means adding courses,
degrees (in same and other disciplines) or what.
I have a phd and just finished a course on using the program R. There
is always more to learn. This
I wouldn't recommend a Ph.D. The market is flooded with us to the
effect of our 10+ years in school not paying any dividends for that
investment - see studies such as a recent one on Florida associates
degree holders making more on average than those with Bachelor's degrees
- a Ph.D. is an
I dealt with the same issue for 3 years in-between undergrad and grad
school. I spent two Michigan winters mowing down invasives for the Nature
Conservancy in areas not as accessible during the summer, but it was
miserable work most of the time. If I was lucky they would save 4-6 weeks
worth of
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