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<blockquote data-quote="JW79" data-source="post: 308184" data-attributes="member: 4979"><p>In terms of schools, UT Knoxville's Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries program is one of the best in my opinion. I loved it. A lot of the professors work closely with professionals within the field and I got a lot of face time meeting and talking with people in the field. The program also is really geared toward gaining you experience. The spring semester of your junior year is called a "spring camp" semester and the entire semester is spent traveling all over the southeast to different WMA's and actually performing work with professionals in the field. It gave me a real understanding of what to expect in the line of work. Knoxville is concentrated more on the Forestry and Wildlife side than Fisheries but there's some course options for everything if you want to take them. </p><p></p><p>Now saying this, when I graduated in 2007 the only work available was out of state. The economy was in a down turn and I noticed that if I wanted to stay in state, I wasn't going to have many options. I didn't want to waste my degree so I decided to go for a masters and broaden my chances at a job so I got a masters in general biology with a aquatics concentration. I ended up getting pretty lucky and got a pretty well paying job doing biological sampling for a local governments EPA permit. I love my job. If you can get one, you'll never leave it and will be worth the effort. You really need a masters to compete anyway cause there's so many people with these degrees and not enough jobs to go around. I also worked my ass off in school, got top grades, volunteered with state, federal and private agencies to get experience, this is a MUST in my opinion to be succesful in the field. Oh yeah, 21 people were in my graduating class in 07 and I think about 5 of us have jobs in the field and most of them make about $12/hour. I know people who work for TWRA here in Tn and they say it's next to impossible to get a job doing anything besides law enforcement within the agency. But that sounds like what you're after so I would say you might have a pretty good chance. Feel free to PM me as well and I'll give you my number if you want. I have been through it and don't mind lending some suggestions.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JW79, post: 308184, member: 4979"] In terms of schools, UT Knoxville's Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries program is one of the best in my opinion. I loved it. A lot of the professors work closely with professionals within the field and I got a lot of face time meeting and talking with people in the field. The program also is really geared toward gaining you experience. The spring semester of your junior year is called a "spring camp" semester and the entire semester is spent traveling all over the southeast to different WMA's and actually performing work with professionals in the field. It gave me a real understanding of what to expect in the line of work. Knoxville is concentrated more on the Forestry and Wildlife side than Fisheries but there's some course options for everything if you want to take them. Now saying this, when I graduated in 2007 the only work available was out of state. The economy was in a down turn and I noticed that if I wanted to stay in state, I wasn't going to have many options. I didn't want to waste my degree so I decided to go for a masters and broaden my chances at a job so I got a masters in general biology with a aquatics concentration. I ended up getting pretty lucky and got a pretty well paying job doing biological sampling for a local governments EPA permit. I love my job. If you can get one, you'll never leave it and will be worth the effort. You really need a masters to compete anyway cause there's so many people with these degrees and not enough jobs to go around. I also worked my ass off in school, got top grades, volunteered with state, federal and private agencies to get experience, this is a MUST in my opinion to be succesful in the field. Oh yeah, 21 people were in my graduating class in 07 and I think about 5 of us have jobs in the field and most of them make about $12/hour. I know people who work for TWRA here in Tn and they say it's next to impossible to get a job doing anything besides law enforcement within the agency. But that sounds like what you're after so I would say you might have a pretty good chance. Feel free to PM me as well and I'll give you my number if you want. I have been through it and don't mind lending some suggestions. [/QUOTE]
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