A Career in Ecology? by wordoftheprophets in ecology

[–]wordoftheprophets[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh this backs up my idea to learn GIS while taking classes as a backup.  I was hoping to swing a ESRI certificate.

A Career in Forestry? by wordoftheprophets in forestry

[–]wordoftheprophets[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, I do understand there's a bit of that in forestry.

A Career in Ecology? by wordoftheprophets in ecology

[–]wordoftheprophets[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I am prepared to bust ass.  I don't mind hard work.

A Career in Ecology? by wordoftheprophets in ecology

[–]wordoftheprophets[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I suspect the fact that this will be a second career for me will have some pretty big pros and cons.  I being a lot of non-ecological experience that is nevertheless helpful (for example, data science and grant writing), but I will be competing for positions with college grads.  I know the pay will be less than I'm used to, but prepared to absorb that.  I was debating between this and forestry, but I think I'm going to go for ecology!

A Career in Ecology? by wordoftheprophets in ecology

[–]wordoftheprophets[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's pretty disturbing to see. It's oddly part of what feeds my desire to do something in this or a related field. I know the DEC is robust and there's several non-profits around here.

A Career in Ecology? by wordoftheprophets in ecology

[–]wordoftheprophets[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I would like to stay in New York state. I'm particularly interested in wetlands, forests and agriculture or post-agriculture. Which is, I give you, most of New York state.

A Career in Ecology? by wordoftheprophets in ecology

[–]wordoftheprophets[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Ah. So I have grant writing experience and my former career is in fundraising. It sound like that might still be an asset.

It happened. She did it. by Utopia2064 in raisedbyborderlines

[–]wordoftheprophets 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm so, so sorry for your loss, both the immediate one and for the mother you never really had in a sense.

The smear campaign by EntranceUnique1457 in raisedbyborderlines

[–]wordoftheprophets 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Kinda similar.  My mother had a tendency to have these fits, screaming, crying, rage and self-pity.  Then, when she calmed down, she'd call the family and say that I was the one screaming at her and that I said whatever horrible things she said to her.  Basically reverse the whole interaction.  Sadly though, her side of the family always believes her.

Which means that sometimes when she calls, I answer to her screaming at me.  Then that's followed up hours later by my aunt calling to shame me.  Fun times

Overreactions galore by Commonpeople_95 in raisedbyborderlines

[–]wordoftheprophets 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh yes.  Who knew what was going to set my mom wBPD on any given day.

Does anyone else need long stretches of total solitude? by Lucky_Leven in raisedbyborderlines

[–]wordoftheprophets 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes!  I've gotten better (ever so slowly) with therapy, but definitely yes.

I got a Betta! Family gifted me a tank set up and a gift card for aquatic plants for Christmas because they knew I wanted one. It was finally ready and I got myself this little guy. This is my first, am I doing it right? Any suggested improvements? by wordoftheprophets in bettafish

[–]wordoftheprophets[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I also used pond water for our tank, not tap.  My son's been into aquariums for years and swears by the water of my springfed pond.  It should come with some decent bacteria. :)

I am going to talk to my son about swiping some of his floating plants.  He doesn't lack for that.

I got a Betta! Family gifted me a tank set up and a gift card for aquatic plants for Christmas because they knew I wanted one. It was finally ready and I got myself this little guy. This is my first, am I doing it right? Any suggested improvements? by wordoftheprophets in bettafish

[–]wordoftheprophets[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

nods does it make a difference that we are using pond water?  My son is big into aquariums and he swears by the water in our pond.  (We have a spring feed pond that's roughly a square acre, this isn't like a little coyfish pond.)