Aquatic college degree?

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aquatic college degree? if you dont mind having trouble looking for work and making pocket change for the rest of your life, then go for it.

when youre young and naive its easy to say "do what you love and it wont matter how much you make". but when you grow up and the real world kicks you right in the face, i'm willing to bet you wont feel the same.

point is, go for a career that has plenty of demand and great pay. then, you can have plenty of money to "do what you love". i was actually a marine biology major at first. changed my mind real quick when i started to think about the future. that's why i'm glad i went with a B.S in accounting/audit ;)
 
I started college as a mechanical engineering major and yeah they make good money but it just wasnt for me. so i changed to marine biology. the thing that sucks is that you dont jump straight into marine biology classes. you have to take all the other bio classes first such as cellular biology and plant biology. i might change my major again but i dont know what to change to
 
as far as owning a business in the industry its not all puppy dogs & ice cream! 12 hours a day 7 days a week. to go on a vacation cost me triple & have to worry if my business will be still standing when I get back? I love what I do but there is burn out like any job. Right now at mid age & a son going to be five & I wish I was making more money now because I worry about his future & supporting the family.

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honda237;3895663;3895663 said:
marine biologist make good money, i like saltwater just can't afford it now.
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yeah, after how many years of slave labor and volunteer work?
 
jcardona1;3895677; said:
yeah, after how many years of slave labor and volunteer work?
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http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Marine_Biologist/Salary

here is something else i found, this is Biological Scientists study

http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos047.htm

another statement, and i am willing to move, nothing holds me to where i am now.

Growth in all of the biologist occupations is expected to grow, however, the total number of people employed in this field is low. Therefore, even though the expectation is that there will be a twenty percent increase by 2010, that number comes out to be only 4,000 job openings nation wide. If you are willing to move to where the jobs are, you will have a better chance of employment, rather than be fixed on your present location.
 
Other things to keep in mind is a high percentage of these types of fields are employed either directly or indirectly from government organizations (this includes schools that get grants from the govt). The plus side is that often means that with low and mediocre pay there are often good benefits. The bad side is many of these jobs are dependent on continuing government funding. Without turning this into a political debate I just saying there is risk in being at the mercy of politicians in washington funding your career.
 
Salary

<LI id=jsArticleStep1 itxtvisited="1">As of 2010, entry-level marine biologists can expect to earn at least $39,000 a year. After four years of experience, they can expect to earn up to $54,000 a year.
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according to what they make after 4yrs, i was makign that my first year out of college. anywho, i dont pay too much attention to these charts, graphs and surveys. i would go out on job board and look at REAL job openings to see what you can expect to find and earn.
 
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