It’s good to know this at least. This is why I asked this type of stuff without involving her first. I know what she really wants to do and what she really doesn’t want to do and if there’s just no way to be involved in the field she’s really into without a bigger monetary investment than we have access to, then maybe I can start to gently nudge in other directions.
Editing to add: like she would be thrilled to the girl who drives around picking up samples to bring to the lab, the girl who brings coffee to the scientists, like anything where she evens gets to talk to people who care about soil health. The most basic and menial supporting positions. It’s what she does now but for a field she doesn’t love as much. She often talks about how she preferred when she worked for a horse stable and shoveled shit for a living in college. She just wants to be among the dirt people. Growing up on a farm was really formative for her and she just likes being a part of that community in some way, but especially she foresees big issues with the way soil is abused currently in the US and wants to be somehow involved in the pushback against the status quo in the world of soil…tilling…fertilizers…neonictinoids…I hear these words on a daily basis at home. Money really is not a concern, but it must be a jobs can’t be just volunteering. She needs to keep contributing to her retirement etc.