What are your long term career goals?
Ask a Biologist Monday 1/30/23
Answers from Biologists:
Create my own wildlife sanctuary. Already in the process of buying 1000 acres.
Become a wildlife ecologist in conservation.
Start a career in the environment.
Be able to research disease within wildlife populations.
Learn as much as I can, have a diverse experience, and have fun.
Be Nigel Thornberry.
Integrate art with biology to educate and influence a broad audience.
Be part of and see the shift in the field to be more inclusive, supportive, and diverse.
Work in human-wildlife conflict and publish a collection of essays.
No longer work for an abusive boss or in a toxic work environment.
Move into a position that requires less travel so I can have a better work life balance.
Maintain a fieldwork/office balance and help my seasonals achieve their career goals.
PMP certification (project management certification).
Environmental health/public health work in toxicology. Clean air, water, and soil access is important.
Find a job that allows me to be in the field still versus a primarily desk based job.
Used to be academia, but considering the toxicity, not sure at the moment.
Head my own pathology research.
Feel confident in my role and doing my role and doing my part to preserve wild places and animals for the future.
Pioneer a Great Lakes region natural wildlife bridge.
Get back into research.
Carnivore ecologist focusing on human wildlife mitigation. On the right track.
Education director at a nature center.
Educate other biologists/ecologists on the conservation detection dog methodology.
Work with animal ambassadors full time.
Conduct research with management implications (direct impacts on conservation).
Specialize in carnivore ecology and work for state agencies or go the academic route.
Curation and education about biodiversity for generations to come.
Land a job that actually pays the average biologist income advertised in college.
Become a middle school biology teacher and inspire kids to fall in love with biology.
Become proficient in GIS.
Behaviorist at a zoo.
Realize that my job is not my entire identity.
Bring a regionally extirpated species back. Working with a model species now.
Continue in a position where I find purpose in the role and allows stability in my personal life.
End up back in research position studying wetland restoration outcomes.
Contribute to native bee research and insect conservation and be a bee taxonomist.
Develop and invasive species control AI to develop integrate management techniques.
Maintain a better work-life balance so I can enjoy work and personal time without stressing about either.
Have a stable, full time position with a non-profit. Feels like a pipe-dream at this point.
