Any Geography majors out there?

“Does anyone have a geography degree or is anyone majoring in it now? I am strongly considering it, so I was just wondering about job opportunities and such. Any advice?”

“I'd say consider it very carefully. You of course want to study something you're interested in, but you have to think jobby job down the line also.”

“For what its worth, I got a Geography minor about 10 years ago. I worked in my Major field and am now pursuing a geographic line of work. If you have any interest at all I strongly recommend a Geography Major - it is very broad (physical, cultural, cartography, GIS,etc.)and can be applied to many fields. There are many jobs that will take any major, as long as you have the ability to reason and make sense of data, so make sure you get a couple stats classes. Nowadays, if you are looking to get into the mapping end of things, you would be advised to load up on GIS and Remote Sensing classes. Get an internship along the way and you should be very marketable. Good luck.”

“Minor in one of the natural resources fields or in urban planning.”

“We have a few geography people in my company who do GIS work. (I work for a civil engineering firm.)”

“Wow, I never heard of such a thing. My grandfather was a geologist who worked as a soil scientist for the state, mapping the soil types. He would spend his days walking the countryside with an auger taking soil samples and amassing the data for maps. Would the geography major be hired to make maps from data, like the maps in National Geographic, various bibles, topographic, oceanic, or do people with more specialized degrees or experiences do that? Is it a degree that you start with and then go on for a masters and PHD, or is it good for jobs all by itself?”

“I have a friend who's getting his Master's in Cultural Geography right now. I think he has an eye toward PhD and teaching, though.”

“One of my pals here at school is our Geography/Geology instructor. He has a master's. Along the way to finally getting the teaching job he has been in a rock band, had a music store, sold cars and life insurance. So the degree clearly prepares you for a variety of endeavors! He is working up more cultural/human geography curriculum to broaden our offerings. He also oversees the gathering of climate data from our campus weather station instruments. That has gone digital and will soon be available on our college website.”

“hehe..i'm one class short of a geology minor, and philosophy minor...i wish i had the brains, and will power to get a full blown geology major...but i don't..so i'm in management..LMAO Much luck to you who travel along the GEO path of education”

“Opie, when I first got to college I took a geology class and really loved it. But I was the only girl in the class, and worse, the guys were total brainiacs. I felt depressed to not be smart enough to be a geologist like my grandfather, and yet I was smart enough to pass the three day CPA exam on the first try. So I don't tell my kids that they can be anything that they want to be if they work hard enough; I just tell them that they should always do the best that they can, investigate any career that is interesting to them and strive to be happy.”

“Several years ago Geography was pretty much a teacher's degree and looked upon as the PE of the Arts and Science Dept. But now with the proliferation of powerful computers and software, Geography Depts have come to life. Every studied area of interest involves Geography, making it one of the three broadest fields. Foamfinger gave some great advice; GIS, Remote Sensing, with programming are the way to go. Currently the most marketable, and profitable areas all involve computers and software. The demand for these skilled positions are growing exponentially, with the word skilled being the key term. Make sure you find a good internship. I double majored and had a much more difficult time with my Enviro Biology than Geography. Difficulty really comes down to what you are interested in. Follow your interest is the best advice anyone can give.”

“While in college, it was very common to look down on geography majors and more so on environmental studies majors. These were people who couldn't hack the math/chem requirements and preferred to play hackey sack all day. I still find in my line of work that same bias persists. Our company (environmental consutlting) will not hire a geography/environmental studies major. The dang thing is we have hired folks with language degrees and those with out a degree whatsoever.

I did enjoy the physical geography courses I took. Hell, those classes raised my GPA.”

“splash..man the girls in geology classes...hoties!!!..lol...I'm through with school, may get my MBA soon, and maybe my JD...but there is still a rock hound inside..tt'ers don't have to load my pack with rocks..i do it on my own!”

“Hotties? You're kiddin' right? The geology chicks at my school were probably the worst looking of all depts that's why I hung with the bio-babes downstairs. On a good note... the geology department was known as the best partiers. Hell, we brought kegs on field trips to Death Valley. It was one drunken blast.”

“granted there were some freaks and dogs too..but not many sorority chics showed up, and if they did it meant they liked getting dirty too!!”

“Don't do it. The maps have all been drawn and they have sattelites that do the job now. They do, however, need good geographers on Mars.

LOL”

“I would call this "thread muddying" rather than "thread deterioration".”

“Yeah, all the sorority chicks took psyche or liberal studies. Cake walk majors.”

“So you are how old, SirPants?”

“82”

“Pantscandy at my school and where I work the chem/math majors are looked at as the folks who are not very well rounded (nerdy) and lack experience. They seemed to just attend class and take test while the Geography Dept. was there slaving on actual work projects until 4am and throwing parties after the projects were over. There was so much actual work that we were required to complete in order to receive my degree. I had several projects to put on my resume. Also, I only had to take a few more hours in chemistry, computer programming, and math to receive a minor in each. I guess it is where you graduate from and where you work. The Geography and Education Departments probably best represented my University.”

“Gonna have to start hitting the refresh button. You guys are totally talking about something else.”

“I think I saw it on MSNBC, National Geographic Explorer, the National Geographic mapping department.

In this day and age, with satellite imaging, digital imaging, world affairs, I think it could be very fun. Maybe an appropriate double geography/language major.”

“Watch the talk about sorority chicks. I have an engineering degree, thank you.”

“Watch out for the engineer talk, my dad's an ME.”

“Watch out for the chick talk, my mother's cousin's wife's sister is a chicken farmer.”

“LOL!”

“smiley gurl...a smart hottie...mmmm *homer drool*

now if we can get this thread to degrate into a boob thread!!”

“I just posted. There's yer boob.”

“( * )( * )


ahhh...hehehe”

“My sister is most of the way through a Ph.D. in geography. She is doing some EPA funded research on the Northwest waterways.

Anyway, check with the Geography department for information about careers.”

“Wow! Thanks for all the info. It's very helpful.”

“Not too bad for a first try: 393 288 points and Level 11.”

“Lets see how those yanks do Gremlin ;o) - I was level 11 too. I keep just missing the 55k needed to get through it.”

“472949 level 11”

“395,128, level 10

It's not exactly easy to get too close to the spots with that little puny map.”

“w00t!
Level 12 @ 539067”

“372k level 10. Wow, HPM is da man. Africa and the 'Stans give me fits.”

“We are not worthy(repeat several times).”

“Just because he knows where East Pottedwhammie is and we don't? Never!”

“On further reflection, it's a little disturbing he knows where these places are.

Definition of a dumbass: Someone that knows less than you.

Definition of a geek: Someone that knows more than you.

Damn geeks.”

“Yeah well when you all were all kids out doing sports, and physical stuff and getting all exposed to the sun I was inside reading maps and stuff so that when the chips were down and the world was falling down around our ears I would be the guy who knew where East Timor and Kamchatka were.

Who's laughing now, huh? Huh!”

“That link popped on another board I read. There's another game on that link that is just the US. There are some tricky ones in there.”

“All those little islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans trip me up.”

“those islands are the bastards - those and some of the russian cities.

You can be in the right vicinity and still be thousands of km out.”

“wow, if they would've taught geography like this in school, I might have studied it more. That is pretty fun. (I can't believe I just said that about geography)

Killer job you guys!”

“Not only that, Y2, but in some cases you click right on a place you know well and it still comes up 70 or 80 km off. That's because of the map size.

Still, the last two levels for me were a lot of guessing, and not very good guessing at that. I think I came fairly close on a few, but many were at thousand or more miles off. But I usually had the right corner of the world.”

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"I would be the guy who knew where ... and Kamchatka were."

Who's laughing now, huh? Huh!”
humanpackmule

I'm laughing. I spent several years of my life looking at the Kamchatka Peninsula from the Bering Sea. Are you talking about the Kamchatka River, the city and port of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky called Kamchatka, the Peninsula, the film or the Rock Band?”

“All the ones you can find on a map.”