Best Careers for Hiker and Nature Lovers

[Fat Freddy]

Originally Posted by branchville

Fat Freddy:

How? Please tell me.

If you can't figure out how to get by with over a quarter of a million dollars in the bank, maybe you do need a job.

[branchville]

I can get by, for a couple years or even a few. But it will run out if i dont use it to either get an education and get hired as a employee, start my own business, or buy 300,000 lottery tickets and win big.

[509]

Get a professional Forestry degree.

If you want to stay in the Northeast there are plenty of Forester positions. Lots of good Forestry programs in that part of the country. You can even get a forestry degree from Yale (I would not recommend it, but they offer one).

A professional Forestry degree is pretty much a liberal arts degree in the sciences. I loved it. It also lets you do LOTS of things in the environmental area without the limits of those new degrees.

In my career, I did a recreational carrying capacity study for a large desert lake, a Wild and Scenice Rivers plan, Wilderness plans and management, timber sales, timber inventories and growth studies, and even got hired by the Federal government as an economist for a few years in resource planning.

Don't get sidetracked into a technician degree. It will place all sorts of limits on your career.

Here is a list of primary issues a professional Forester deals with on a daily basis:

Society of American Foresters - Working Groups

So if you get bored after a few years, lots of options to explore and not have to do a new degree!!

Here is the career stuff:

Society of American Foresters - Forestry Students: Forestry Careers

http://www.safnet.org/fs/careerbro.pdf

[texdav]

OP. We'd be guessing not knowing you; you abilities; skills or even interest other than hiking for two hours. Certainly you have some idea and know you better than us. Besides that running a business successfully takes business skills called managing as its the leading reason businesses fail especially small businesses. Good luck

[Gabbythecat]

Physical therapist? I know a lot of pts that are active in the outdoors. They tend to be very good at dealing with sports related injuries. The training isnt as long as for a doctor...plus they are convenient to have on hiking trips - for dealing with sprains etc....small town pts can do very well...but you have to like the work of course.

[Beenaroundabit]

Originally Posted by 509

Get a professional Forestry degree.

If you want to stay in the Northeast there are plenty of Forester positions. Lots of good Forestry programs in that part of the country. You can even get a forestry degree from Yale (I would not recommend it, but they offer one).

A professional Forestry degree is pretty much a liberal arts degree in the sciences. I loved it. It also lets you do LOTS of things in the environmental area without the limits of those new degrees.

In my career, I did a recreational carrying capacity study for a large desert lake, a Wild and Scenice Rivers plan, Wilderness plans and management, timber sales, timber inventories and growth studies, and even got hired by the Federal government as an economist for a few years in resource planning.

Don't get sidetracked into a technician degree. It will place all sorts of limits on your career.

Here is a list of primary issues a professional Forester deals with on a daily basis:

Society of American Foresters - Working Groups

So if you get bored after a few years, lots of options to explore and not have to do a new degree!!

Here is the career stuff:

Society of American Foresters - Forestry Students: Forestry Careers

http://www.safnet.org/fs/careerbro.pdf

This. I interact with foresters quite a bit - either employed by private companies or by different levels of government. Seems like interesting work and LOTS of time outdoors, in very rural areas. I actually looked into forestry as a second career - once I retire - but simply don't have the background (maybe experience-wise, but not educationally).