college degree making minimum wage... AWESOME!

so im a zoology major. im a junior and changed my major from english to zoology so its basically like starting all over. i went from all liberal arts, literature, english etc to math and science.

well now i dont even know what i want to do with it. i was going to go into veterinary medicine but i dont want to work in an office all day y'know? just looking at cats and dogs all day would be boring. so then i thought zookeeper. and i dont really care about the pay but for the kind of work they do they only make a couple bucks more an hour than i do working at a pizza place!

i feel like im at a loss. i love animals. theyre my life. but i just cant find a job that fits what i want to do. my boyfriend and i want to travel so a job in research that is going to move me all around the world would be awesome but that seems like a pipe dream.

any suggestions at things to look at?

oh yeah, i also volunteer at the humane society and like doing things in spay and neuter education and evironmental studies type of stuff also.

Sal, my only advice is to find something you can love doing and do that. You can learn to live at a variety of different income levels but learning to love a job that doesn't agree with you is nearly impossible.

Take it from a guy who went to film school, it's worth chasing the dream but you might have to work harder and make less to get that personally satisfying career.

Cyran0

i applied for an internship at the st. louis zoo for next summer and then another one for all at the cincinnati zoo. hopefully, doing zookeeper kind of thing for an internship will show me what parts i like and what i dont. its just hard to know beforehand. cause things are so different once you get the job. they need to let kids do follow shifts for a week or so in several different fields their freshman year. my boyfriend has a degree in criminology, then got a job and now hes going back to school.

I think working at a zoo would be great! You won't be stuck in an office, and look at the training you will receive! Then, you will be able to become a vet for large animals if you like...and that will keep you out of an office!