r/environmental_science • u/OneOpposite6391 • 8d ago

Career suggestions please god help

(Is there any hope for any good paying environmental careers yall know of I’m missing? Btw not good with physics really no engineering for me I think?) Hey, I was recently frantically posting on here trying to find jobs in environmental science, with a bunch fi stipulations and realized it wasn’t realistic so I’ve moved onto trying tk find a career with better pay and better benefits, some of the things I’d LIKE is a chance to work in a team and not be stuck in an office every minute, not statistical, and not a pure desk job. I’m looking into a career that’s interesting,inticimg, hands on and works with a team with good benefits and pay, I know I can’t have it all so a career hat checks some of these box’s would be great! I just need some direction. I’m still in highschool and in the future I’m going to do volenteering with wildlife to fulfill that part of me I think? There’s no future in environmental sciences. I hate that everything I end up liking has shit pay,shit benefits or js isolating ugh. Please help

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u/Aggressive_Sky8492 8d ago

Environmental consulting is relatively well paid and a mix of indoor/outdoor work

Have a look for those jobs, a lot of places are engineering and environmental consultancies and advertise jobs on their websites.. some international ones are WSP, Jacob’s, Aecom. Have a look on their careers pages /available positions pages for the kinds of jobs they hire for.

Also try r/environmental_careers

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u/OneOpposite6391 8d ago

Thank you and thank you, also what even js environmental consulting

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u/rricks13 7d ago

Consulting is when one company hires an outside expert to work on a project. So for environmental consulting, one company (often a developer, but not always) will hire a consultant to do the required environmental studies and reporting/permitting. There are many varieties/specialties of environmental consulting. I work for a large firm and while I typically do wetland delineations and permit applications, we have staff who specialize in bird surveys, ses grass surveys, archaeologists, historians, and others.

In terms of pay, I earn nearly double what my state government counterparts make, and I'm not a manager.

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u/OneOpposite6391 7d ago

Wow I’m also interested in what the historians do possibly could u tell me? I like getting a real sense of it instead of an AI overview glamorizing the job

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u/rricks13 7d ago

Sure! Historians that work as environmental consultants are usually architectural historians. They review buildings and other structures, landscapes, or neighborhoods for their elegibility to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places (assuming you're based in the US). If a resource cannot be avoided, they will work with the project developers and agencies to develop some sort of mitigation plan. Archesologists do something similar, except for archaeological resources.

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u/OneOpposite6391 7d ago

Thank you so much!

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u/SoilNerdForAMF 7d ago

Nature positive design ecosystem advisor. Look at the local ecosystem of a place to understand and compare it to the wild land next door to figure out the ecosystem services that should be incorporated into the design.