Associates in Applied Science in Natural Resource Management and Outdoor Recreation

Associates in Applied Science in Natural Resource Conservation Law Enforcement

Associates in range management, ag business, and natural resources.

3 phd's over 25 years of post hole digging.

BS degree in wildlife management.

What difference does that make?
It all depends on the career you chose .
Funny how some people make a career out of socialism.

What happened to you-you had to ride the short bus,lol.

College degree is WAY overrated. I know a lot of people a lot smarter and more successful than I am with no degree and I graduated college with a lot of idiots. I do have a Forestry degree from Oklahoma State and would not be able to have the job I have today without it.

BA in History, BA Broadfield Social Sciences, Mount Scenario University, Master of Education St Scholastic Duluth, Public History Eau Claire
Way more paper than I ever thought I'd have to my name.

Nope my seat was taken by you !
I learned to live by my own means , technical school paid my way.Never got or asked my parents for help.
I never believed in socialism.

I have a 98.6

No college degree. I have had a 100 ton license with several endorsements since 96 but those are a dime a dozen any more.

Barely finished high school. Started trapping and got polluted by it. Hindsight I should have quit school. It would make where I am today that much sweeter.

I see there a few guys on here with degrees in the natural resource fields, wildlife biology etc.
So I would like your input on the following if you don't mind.

I was in college for a as a wildlife biologist major myself before I felt it was a waste of time.
What really turned me was I ran into a pair of guys with masters degrees in the natural resource fields and when I found out what they were doing it shocked me.
They were working at a golf course due to the fact that jobs in the fields were very hard to get.
I also learned at the time (mid '70's) that vets had preference in hiring.

Since then I have run into many young people that have degrees in natural resource fields that are doing other than what they thought they'd be doing.
All not by their choice but the situation of more applicants than jobs.
I have a niece that has a Phd in Aquatic Entomology that ended up as a biology teacher.
Not what she wanted and a waste of a Phd education.

One of the young guys I know tried to get a internship on a study of wolves in WI. He told me there was Professors trying out for the job. He was very disheartened by the whole experience.
What chance did a guy with a BS have against guys with Phds for just an internship job?

So my question for your comments is the picture I paint pretty much true?
Very hard to get a job in many of the Natural resource fields?
way more applicants than jobs?

Associate of applied science in welding and metals technology.




Charlie

The field is extremely competitive. You can have 100-150 people applying for an entry level position. Many of those applicants will have masters. What (entry level menial jobs) at one time only took an AS in wildlife tech/management, now require at least a bachelors with the intention of going for a masters. I saw a job posted not long ago looking for a field bio tech. You had to be working on getting a masters.

You almost have to specialize in one discipline.

i have many hours of collage classes, no degree , I went thru a 4 year apprentice program as a millwright. I work as a millwright for 35 years in a paper mill, I work with lots of people with degrees either they couldn't find a job in there field or didn't like it once they try it , most made more money at the mill ,

My dad always told me if you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bs.Has always worked for me!

I've got two BAs, anthropology and American indian studies. Do they apply to my current job? Nope. But I met my wife in college, wouldn't change that for the world.

It was my third year when I realized I wouldn't get a job in my field, but I finished anyway. Then became an auto tech, and now I write technical manuals for paper converting machines.

Just a useless associates degree. If I had it to do over again I'd have gone to veterinary school.

B.S in agriculture with an animal science concentration in 2014. M.S. in 2020. Both from WKU