AnalogDog
04-24-08, 10:03 PM
For 15 years I worked for the government in environmental programs. I am a 100% green guy and always have been. I am really wanting a 100% environmentally positive job in a truly positive company or agency.
I have always been viewed as a technician by people as working with or on machines is easy for me. But inside is a manager trying to get out. I also am a real can do sort of guy, I have a hard time coming up with ideas that work, but should an idea be passed on to me, I can ponder it, discover its fallacies or make it so (with the right budget). All this is really intuitive to me.
I have a BS in geology but standard hard rock or engineering geology bores me to death. I find environmental work quite energizing. I am having a heck of a time getting a job as an environmental geologist working on contaminated sites. I seem to not even be able to obtain interviews for entry level jobs, as this would be a career change for me.
I am thinking about trying to move to something really new and different in the green economy but wondering how I could sell myself. I have been through two career counselors that advocate I pursue the environmental geologist option. But I am concerned because I am way more environmentally concerned that most in these jobs, and secondly I really don't want more boring jobs as a technician.
Now I am quite in a muddle about the whole 'which job do I want thing'. Gimme some opinions on what to do. Suck it up, or keep looking for a dream job.
I have always been viewed as a technician by people as working with or on machines is easy for me. But inside is a manager trying to get out. I also am a real can do sort of guy, I have a hard time coming up with ideas that work, but should an idea be passed on to me, I can ponder it, discover its fallacies or make it so (with the right budget). All this is really intuitive to me.
I have a BS in geology but standard hard rock or engineering geology bores me to death. I find environmental work quite energizing. I am having a heck of a time getting a job as an environmental geologist working on contaminated sites. I seem to not even be able to obtain interviews for entry level jobs, as this would be a career change for me.
I am thinking about trying to move to something really new and different in the green economy but wondering how I could sell myself. I have been through two career counselors that advocate I pursue the environmental geologist option. But I am concerned because I am way more environmentally concerned that most in these jobs, and secondly I really don't want more boring jobs as a technician.
Now I am quite in a muddle about the whole 'which job do I want thing'. Gimme some opinions on what to do. Suck it up, or keep looking for a dream job.