where my geochuds at?
Ayo. Got a degree in Forest and Nature Conservation and Geographical Information Management and Application. That's all worthless. I now do whatever and field research jobs in swamps.
>>2865781geologist here, summer can sucked ass. No cute girls, professor had a melty half way through. Middle of fucking nowhere.
I read a textbook 20 years ago and I watch Myron Cook if that counts. I like it as a hobby like bird watching. I just recently went to the Grand canyon and it's hard for me to believe geologists know jack shit about 2 billy years ago
>>2866318>hard for me to believe geologists know jack shit about 2 billy years agogeologists, geophysicists, geochemists and so on. You are right, the further back you look the foggier it gets, but there are the basic principles and physics and chemistry and they actaully know a lot - and planetary studies have shown examples of the Earth could have been like. The more you know about geology the more interesting things you see when you drive or fly aroun. Aside asteroid impacts there have been massive volconic explostions and large long term eruptions that have shaped and reshaped the large sections of the plane. Siberan and Decan traps are some expamples, I have forgotten alot over the years, but still appreciate how quickly things can change when mantle plume gets active and supplies large amounts of magma to the surface.
>>2865781Been thinking of going back to uni to study geology. Probably a terrible idea but so would be staying my course.
>>2866519What are you doing now? I'm considering the same thing. I'm studying industrial maintenance and controls and I don't like it all that much.
>>2866546Bugman programming job. Pays well and I'm not concerned about AI, just tired of the work and the field's "culture".
Ok so I took a look at /sci/ and every single thread was dumb and sounded like a buzzfeed article with a buzzfeed comments section.I aslo took a look at rate my professor and some geo students were complaining that the prof made them hand draw sketches of rocks. First off do they actually make you do that and second, what’s with people getting into the field who find it boring? You’d think people would be able to tell in advance>>2866316That sounds unideal but itsn’t the whole point of geoscience to go in the middle of nowhere far away from normies in the first place?
Got my bsci in geology about 3 yrs ago. Done some consulting work, sat some drill rigs, and have been doing exploration/geophysics for the past year with a winter stint as a lifty in mammoth (snowboarding all day for work is still the best work). Currently in Nevada doing a survey for a gold/antimony play. It’s fun. I hone a mountain all day and am essentially a field electrician splicing wires and looking for cool rocks while the computer beeps and boops to guess at what’s in the ground. Living in a motel right now. Excited to be on my way home soon but I make good money and get lots of time off to climb and be retarded. Found some cool paleo scrapers and bones so far. We have a crystal finding competition every day. I’ve won twice. Not everyone on my crew is a geologist or has a degree.
>>2865781sup dawg i'm a hydrogeo with 15 years experience. the job market sucks ass and i'm probably going to be laid off (again) soon.>>2866913takes me back. i spent a lot of time at the cortez mine outside crescent city. nevada is a lot of fun but that motel lifestyle isn't for me anymore.
>>2866591There are huge opportunity gaps in the field of geological software.
>>2865781I did my degree in electrical engineering and every month or so I wish that I enrolled in geography, meteorology or geo information systems instead. It feels almost too late to start my career over again in a different field, or at least I don't have the money to almost stop working again to focus on the new degree. Anyone know if it's possible to switch into geography and related fields, or how to make it a little easier?Unfortunately I haven't found any part time geography degrees where I live yet. It's in no way comparable but I did discover this nice little geo information systems course for python: pythongis.org if anyone is curious.
