Green Jobs

Ever wanted to help the environment past recycling every week but were tied down by other obligations such as your current job? There is good news for you and for all of us. In the United States, the green job market is one of the fastest growing sectors of the economy. Every day, many employers are looking for talented and qualified, environmentally savvy professionals to fill such exciting positions such as environmental engineering, sustainable forestry and range management, parks and recreation management, air and water quality control, solid waste and hazardous waste management, recycling, urban and rural land-use-planning, computer modeling, ecological restoration, and soil, water, fishery, and wildlife conservation and management. As you can see, there are a myriad of opportunities for those passionate people with strong scientific and engineering backgrounds. Not only do these jobs provide you with the satisfaction of doing the right thing, median earnings for environmental engineers start at 74,000 dollars with the highest 10% earning 115,000.

There are also other opportunities to help the environment if you decide to pursue careers in education, environmental planning, environmental management, environmental health, toxicology, geology, ecology, conservation biology, chemistry, climatology, population dynamics and regulation, law, risk analysis and management, accounting, environmental journalism, design and architecture, energy conservation and analysis, and renewable-energy technologies. These are only a few examples out of everything that is possible. This is because there are more interdisciplinary fields now than ever before. Even if you majored in something that you thought to be completely unrelated to the environment, chances are there's a special niche for you to occupy that deals directly with the issues that are facing our Earth today. The benefits of choosing a career path in green jobs and green technology include high pay and great satisfaction. Also, being one of the fastest growing sectors in the economy, new employers are always looking for well-qualified and motivated employees. No matter how bad the market may be, talented and motivated people will always have a place in the workforce.

If you are interested in pursuing a career in this field, I would recommend that you go to the Bureau of Labor Statistics to do some research on the specifications and salaries of some of the jobs you are interested in.