A budding career path.
I think I just found myself a career path, but I'm not quite sure about it yet.
I'm taking a class called Concepts in Pest Management, and it's mostly about Integrated Pest Management. We've learned a lot about being a Pest Control Adviser, and the professor has been advocating towards us students getting the license and becoming one. I remember hearing that PCAs are in high demand as the agriculture industry ages, and I looked into the requirements. I found I meet them all - education, work experience ... it's sort of weird, because I look at my goals for my masters and it matches up quite perfectly too. I've been leaning towards understanding the system as a whole in regards to horticulture - understand all the factors like irrigation, soil, nutrients and pests. When you're a PCA you have to know that stuff to figure out what's going on.
I don't know. I would have a job as a PCA. But it's not this huge thing I've been working towards for the past three years. And I don't know much about it. And I don't know if I would be fulfilled doing it. But the little bit of research I have found makes it seem kinda not too bad. You go a lot of places, spend a lot of time outside, work with farmers and plants. I think I could really like it.
Plus, the economy of it is sorta getting to me too. With my grand idea of 'helping people with plants', I'm not quite sure where to go or how to do that. I don't think I would be able to easily find a job doing this when I graduate, and my limited ability to memorize things makes it difficult for me to be a convincing botanist and someone qualified for the position of horticulturalist. But the PCA job exists, and I could do it. I have reference books and a baseline knowledge - it's quite reasonable.
I don't know. It's sorta exciting to think I could have a marketable skill and make money, but at the same time I feel like a sell-out and I don't know why.
I'm taking a class called Concepts in Pest Management, and it's mostly about Integrated Pest Management. We've learned a lot about being a Pest Control Adviser, and the professor has been advocating towards us students getting the license and becoming one. I remember hearing that PCAs are in high demand as the agriculture industry ages, and I looked into the requirements. I found I meet them all - education, work experience ... it's sort of weird, because I look at my goals for my masters and it matches up quite perfectly too. I've been leaning towards understanding the system as a whole in regards to horticulture - understand all the factors like irrigation, soil, nutrients and pests. When you're a PCA you have to know that stuff to figure out what's going on.
I don't know. I would have a job as a PCA. But it's not this huge thing I've been working towards for the past three years. And I don't know much about it. And I don't know if I would be fulfilled doing it. But the little bit of research I have found makes it seem kinda not too bad. You go a lot of places, spend a lot of time outside, work with farmers and plants. I think I could really like it.
Plus, the economy of it is sorta getting to me too. With my grand idea of 'helping people with plants', I'm not quite sure where to go or how to do that. I don't think I would be able to easily find a job doing this when I graduate, and my limited ability to memorize things makes it difficult for me to be a convincing botanist and someone qualified for the position of horticulturalist. But the PCA job exists, and I could do it. I have reference books and a baseline knowledge - it's quite reasonable.
I don't know. It's sorta exciting to think I could have a marketable skill and make money, but at the same time I feel like a sell-out and I don't know why.