A career in Geography?
Posted on May 12, 2009 - Filed Under Employment
Did you stare at world maps when you were a child? Could you not get enough of a map of Europe, or discovering all the world map has to offer? Perhaps you should think about a career in geography. There are a bevy of jobs and ways to sneak your way into the geography field.
Geography is usually seen as just map making, one of the world’s oldest professions. A profession of the explorers and land blazers like Christopher Columbus . Geography is still a viable career. It is possible to turn your obsession with the terrain and wetlands of a map of Florida into a job.
While making maps is still an option, geography has grown in to a bona fide career category. Geography jobs include such things as environmental, remote sensing, economic development, transportation planning and research. If one of the computer games you could not get enough of was Sim City, a game where you constructed and planned virtual cities and managed them, this is today’s kind of work in the field of geography.
There is usually geography jobs available in all types of area despite terrain there are jobs available. Those who are concerned with the environment can look for work as a climatologist, or those interested purely in the making of world maps can still find work as a cartographer.
Even those English majors can find writing and research jobs in the field of geography. There are even private groups that provide transportation and environmental planning. So being an entrepreneur and starting your own business is possible with geography too.
If you find yourself interested in planning and development, consider the field of geography. Who knew there were so many opportunities in a field you probably haven’t thought about since the fourth grade geography bee?
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