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Sussing out career options
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By Anonymous Hero
Posted Wed Mar 15, 2006 at 10:52:05 PM PDT
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I'm doing a PhD in algebra at the moment. I love it, but am reaching a point where I will need to make some big career decisions soon - chief among these:
*** emigrate or find a nonacademic job after I graduate? (since academic career options in my home city are a bit limited).
It's a big decision, so I want to find out about non-academic career options before I decide.
I'd really like to do something that helps solve or understand environmental problems, and I like research. But I really don't know if I could be helpful with the skills I have now.
And I don't really know how to gather information.
I've tried my campus career office, and found the universal response was: "um, why don't you be an actuary?". I don't think I want to be an actuary.
Also, I do volunteer bushcare, and have met people who work in the environmental industry there, but they all seem to have environmental science degrees, which only contributes to my fear that I may be useless. I'd feel a little obnoxious calling up a related company to ask for advice about how I could be of use to them.
Does anyone have any ideas about how I could find out more? Or am I following a pipe dream anyway?
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