00:00is a forestry degree worth it that's
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00:29out so what is forestry exactly what is
00:32a forester degree and a forestry
00:34major all about this basically focuses
00:36on teaching students how to conserve and
00:40ecosystem you're going to be doing a lot
00:43economics and social science now with
00:45this degree you might become
00:47a conservation scientist or a forester a
00:50lot of the time you might end up working
00:51for a non-profit or in a government job
00:54some people end up going on to become
00:55firefighters as well
00:57and ironically some people end up
00:58working in the logging industry so when
01:00it comes to salary or earning potential
01:03with this degree you would expect to
01:06a year starting out and 75 000 in
01:09you can compare that to a really high
01:11paying degree like petroleum engineering
01:13or a really low paying degree like
01:14recreational therapy
01:16and you see that it's on the lower side
01:17but it's definitely not as bad as
01:18recreational therapy
01:20now one career path you might go down is
01:21becoming a conservation scientist or a
01:24forester and they make around
01:25sixty two thousand dollars a year now i
01:27always tell people to aim for around
01:29seventy five to eighty thousand dollars
01:30a year because studies have shown that
01:32increase your happiness up to a certain
01:34point and that's around seventy five to
01:36eighty thousand a year
01:37beyond that point your happiness doesn't
01:39really increase all that much more and
01:40so i always say it's a good idea to aim
01:42for that just so you can maximize your
01:44happiness and with this career it might
01:46be a little bit difficult for you to get
01:47to that level and that's not all that
01:49uncommon when it comes to
01:50science-related degrees and
01:51science-related careers
01:53they're usually pretty average paying
01:55and sometimes even below average
01:56so when it comes to the total amount of
01:58money that you make over a lifetime with
01:59a college degree it's usually around
02:012.4 million dollars with a physical
02:04science degree it's around 2.6 million
02:06and biological science is 2.3 so it's a
02:08little bit above average with physical
02:10and below average with biological
02:12overall with this one i'm going to give
02:14it a score of 6 out of 10.
02:16next we're going to be talking about
02:17satisfaction and with this one i always
02:19like to talk about meaning
02:21as well as job satisfaction so meaning
02:23is going to be how much you think your
02:25positively impacts the world whereas job
02:28satisfaction is just how much do you
02:29enjoy doing your job on a day-to-day
02:32this one is always extremely subjective
02:34but i do my best to break it down as
02:36fairly as possible so when it comes to
02:38meaning you see that forestry has a 66
02:41meaning score which is on the higher
02:43side you can compare that to a really
02:44high score like radiation therapy at 91
02:47percent or really low score like
02:48plastics engineering
02:50technology at 31 that means that a lot
02:52of people who graduate with forestry
02:54degrees tend to go into careers where
02:56they think that their career positively
02:58impacts the world now if you look at a
02:59specific career that they go into like
03:01forester for instance you're gonna see
03:03that the meaning score is 81
03:05which is really high and the job
03:07satisfaction score is 85
03:10you can compare that to a really good
03:11one like clergy or a really bad one like
03:14parking lot attendant and you'll see
03:15that it's definitely on the higher side
03:17not everyone ends up becoming a forester
03:19though that's a relatively rare job
03:21and people who end up getting into that
03:23are probably people who want to be
03:24outdoors so like i said before this one
03:26is extremely subjective
03:28a lot of people also end up working in
03:30government jobs like i said before
03:32and it's really going to change
03:33depending on what type of job you go
03:35the people you work around what kind of
03:37pace the environment is in
03:39you know is it a fast-paced environment
03:40is it slow paced the business you work
03:42for the industry you work in
03:44all kinds of different things are going
03:45to contribute to the factor of how much
03:47you enjoy doing your job but overall i'm
03:50going to give this one a relatively good
03:527.5 out of 10. now when it comes to
03:54demand with a forestry career
03:56it's growing at around 5 over the next
04:00but there's only around 3 600 jobs
04:01available which means there's only going
04:03a 1700 that pop up and the amount of
04:07is going to change quite a bit depending
04:09on where you live so for instance
04:10there's not that many jobs available in
04:12nevada because it's sort of like
04:14a desert climate so there's a chance
04:15that you will have to move in order to
04:18and when you type in the keyword
04:20forestry degree on monster.com only
04:22around a thousand jobs pop
04:24up you can compare that to a degree
04:25where there's not very much demand like
04:28where 800 jobs pop up or one where
04:30there's lots of demand
04:31like computer science where 141 000.
04:34however i always like to say this
04:35there's lots of jobs out there that are
04:37probably completely unrelated to
04:40absolutely nothing to do with forestry
04:42where you just have to have a college
04:43degree in order to apply for them
04:45and so you do have to take that into
04:47consideration overall when it comes to
04:49demand i'm going to give this one a 5.5
04:52next we're going to be talking about x
04:54factors and this is anything that didn't
04:56make it into any of the other sections
04:58now forestry would probably be
04:59classified as a biological science
05:02degree and they make around 2.3 million
05:04dollars over an entire lifetime that's a
05:06little bit lower than the average degree
05:08in all different types of jobs of around
05:102.4 million so when you see science
05:12degrees they're usually about
05:13average when it comes to your earnings
05:15over an entire lifetime however it's
05:16going to vary differently depending on
05:18what career path you go
05:20into so you can see that this one does
05:22actually have a decent range of careers
05:24you can get into so for instance if you
05:25went into technology you work with
05:27computers you might make over three
05:29over a lifetime so when it comes to
05:31science degrees a lot of the time the
05:32skill set that you learn is relatively
05:34narrow so you're going to be learning a
05:35lot about trees and that sort of thing
05:38directly help you if you don't end up
05:40going into forestry however indirectly a
05:42lot of the skills that you learn will
05:43probably help you quite a bit
05:45this is probably why you see people who
05:47get science degrees having success in
05:49unrelated fields now when it comes to
05:51skills and how much those skills are
05:53valued on the job market
05:54when you look at the skill of
05:55environmental field work you're going to
05:5827 out of 100 score compare that to
06:01software engineering at 88 out of 100
06:03and industrial sewing at eight so it's
06:05definitely on the lower side and that
06:07doesn't mean that it doesn't have value
06:09it's just at this particular time in
06:10history the skill of
06:12environmental field work is not going to
06:14be something where a lot of people are
06:16looking to hire people for
06:17now weirdly enough this surprised me but
06:20apparently there's a very high chance of
06:22automation for a lot of the forestry
06:24jobs so for instance forest and
06:26conservation workers have an
06:2887 chance of being automated that's
06:30according to the study on will
06:34however the people who responded to the
06:36poll said there's only about a 27
06:38chance so a lot of people think that it
06:40won't be automated but the
06:41scientists that conducted the study
06:43think that it will so overall i'm gonna
06:46six out of 10 when it comes to x factors
06:49so some of the pros here are that it's
06:50going to have a pretty good satisfaction
06:53meaning another great thing is you might
06:55be able to get a job where you're going
06:56to be out and about in nature working
06:58outside instead of having to do a lot of
07:01office work which can
07:02be great for the right person the cons
07:03here are that some of the jobs are very
07:06automated the salary is not very good
07:08especially when you first start out
07:10and on top of that there's not going to
07:11be very much demand for this one
07:13overall i'm going to give this one a
07:14score of 6.25 out of 10. now i always
07:18say this but it's extremely subjective
07:20for one person it might be 10 out of 10
07:21another person it might be 1 out of 10.
07:23it really just depends on what your
07:25goals are what you're looking for etc so
07:27if your goal is to work a government job
07:29where you're not really making all that
07:31much money but you're not somebody who
07:32needs to make that much money to be
07:34then this can be a really good option
07:36for you especially if you know exactly
07:38what you're going for
07:39my goal here is just to make sure that
07:40you do your due diligence and
07:42you know figure out what your goal is
07:44what career you're going for
07:45talk to people who are in that career
07:47and then ask them whether they need to
07:49even get a forestry degree in order to
07:50get into it for instance a lot of people
07:52get a forestry degree and then they
07:54firefighter and the truth is you don't
07:56actually have to get a forestry degree
07:58in order to get into that career at
07:59least most of the time depending on what
08:01career path you're looking at now a lot
08:03of the careers out there are going to be
08:04for the local state or federal
08:07you might also end up working for a
08:09logging company which might sound a
08:10little bit weird and might be the
08:12opposite of what you wanted to do when
08:13you first got into it
08:14you might be doing some watershed
08:16recreation or wildlife management now a
08:18lot of these careers are going to
08:19require you to work outside no matter
08:21what the conditions are so you're going
08:23to be working outside when it's really
08:24nice but also if it's raining or snowing
08:27but you're also going to be doing a lot
08:28of office work it's not just always
08:30being outside it's also a good idea to
08:32learn extra skills maybe even double
08:35statistics for instance would be a great
08:36skill to have geographical information
08:39systems would make a great combination
08:40with this one as well
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