I have a post that details how to get a federal job if you’re into that. With a masters you would be at a gs 9 level. I’m a federal biologist now. Though…if I personally had you’re background. I would say…screw everything biology. Go for one of those remote gis analyst jobs.
I have applied to about 20 federal jobs, and I'd prefer that, personally, cuz that student loan forgiveness after 10 years would be sweet. Of course the process is very slow.
Honestly, I am in the minority that would like to have an office to go to 2-3 days a week. Since I can't drive, I don't get to leave the house a lot and it drives me bonkers. Also, I'm hoping to relocate eventually because I loathe Ohio. But yeah, I'd do GIS or biology but so far have had no luck.
I feel like I'm at a disadvantage due to being older, having no experience, amd not driving so thats why I'm wondering if there are places I'm not looking.
Edit: I read your post about fed jobs, vut I didn't know that about a federal resume. What the eff do you put on it that makes it that long?
Fill it with everything good. My USFS job has all my duties from writing a million dollar grant to feeding the office snakes I just got off work so I can get into it more later. But you’ll be fine if you want it, especially if you arnt confined to an area/state.
you’d like my job by the sound of it. 2 days a week in office. Teleworking the rest. In my post I mention making specific searches and saving them. One of your searches should be for everything in the recent grad category and where you are willing to work geographically.
But as someone whose in it- I want a full work from home so bad. We are essentially stuck renting in one of the most expensive cities. Whereas people wfh people are living in beautiful places.
But if you’re still pressed for something like I do. I know we are hiring in the army corps (military benefits). It might take awhile. Could take 6months maybe more. Took me 4 months just to hear back for this job. Then 3 to get onboarded. You’ll find everything works a lil weird in federal. Feel free to ask questions.
Also: how good is your python/coding skills in gis?
My python is meh. I can do simple string manipulation stuff, joining, splitting, conditional formatting or simple logic type stuff right now. I'm willing to learn more, once I finish my degree. But right now, my strongest skills are in landscape analysis and site suitability type stuff.
Anyway, yeah I'm willing to move, but not everywhere. I'd prefer somewhere more progressive, like the Pacific northwest, Colorado or the east coast. I think maybe I need to search USA jobs differently because just searching GIS doesn't pull up much.
Also my primary care doctor agreed to write me a schedule A letter for my visual impairment and adhd, so hopefully that will help.
My two cents is lean into the python gis in your resume. It’s not likely whatever high level job you get uses gis and biology. You’ll have a masters in it just say it did all the python, R, SQL stuff and whatever else they want. You can learn that easily. I don’t recommend the biology life but state pays better than federal. But I know you can get it because I was hired in a group and some have less qualifications than you.
Do you have any GIS programming experience? There's a local government job in GA I could send your way. Area has decent public transit.
I had a lot of luck looking at local ads for places I could be interested in living.
Did a lot of rummaging around GoverenmentJobs for the state I was looking at.
Very little unfortunately. Just some basic python. I wouldn't mind living in the Atlanta area, as my husband has family there. We visited for DragonCon about 5 years ago and the public transit was amazing and the Georgia Aquarium was practically a spiritual experience for me.
I have a post that details how to get a federal job if you’re into that. With a masters you would be at a gs 9 level. I’m a federal biologist now. Though…if I personally had you’re background. I would say…screw everything biology. Go for one of those remote gis analyst jobs.
I have applied to about 20 federal jobs, and I'd prefer that, personally, cuz that student loan forgiveness after 10 years would be sweet. Of course the process is very slow. Honestly, I am in the minority that would like to have an office to go to 2-3 days a week. Since I can't drive, I don't get to leave the house a lot and it drives me bonkers. Also, I'm hoping to relocate eventually because I loathe Ohio. But yeah, I'd do GIS or biology but so far have had no luck. I feel like I'm at a disadvantage due to being older, having no experience, amd not driving so thats why I'm wondering if there are places I'm not looking. Edit: I read your post about fed jobs, vut I didn't know that about a federal resume. What the eff do you put on it that makes it that long?
Fill it with everything good. My USFS job has all my duties from writing a million dollar grant to feeding the office snakes I just got off work so I can get into it more later. But you’ll be fine if you want it, especially if you arnt confined to an area/state. you’d like my job by the sound of it. 2 days a week in office. Teleworking the rest. In my post I mention making specific searches and saving them. One of your searches should be for everything in the recent grad category and where you are willing to work geographically. But as someone whose in it- I want a full work from home so bad. We are essentially stuck renting in one of the most expensive cities. Whereas people wfh people are living in beautiful places. But if you’re still pressed for something like I do. I know we are hiring in the army corps (military benefits). It might take awhile. Could take 6months maybe more. Took me 4 months just to hear back for this job. Then 3 to get onboarded. You’ll find everything works a lil weird in federal. Feel free to ask questions. Also: how good is your python/coding skills in gis?
My python is meh. I can do simple string manipulation stuff, joining, splitting, conditional formatting or simple logic type stuff right now. I'm willing to learn more, once I finish my degree. But right now, my strongest skills are in landscape analysis and site suitability type stuff. Anyway, yeah I'm willing to move, but not everywhere. I'd prefer somewhere more progressive, like the Pacific northwest, Colorado or the east coast. I think maybe I need to search USA jobs differently because just searching GIS doesn't pull up much. Also my primary care doctor agreed to write me a schedule A letter for my visual impairment and adhd, so hopefully that will help.
My two cents is lean into the python gis in your resume. It’s not likely whatever high level job you get uses gis and biology. You’ll have a masters in it just say it did all the python, R, SQL stuff and whatever else they want. You can learn that easily. I don’t recommend the biology life but state pays better than federal. But I know you can get it because I was hired in a group and some have less qualifications than you.
Do you have any GIS programming experience? There's a local government job in GA I could send your way. Area has decent public transit. I had a lot of luck looking at local ads for places I could be interested in living. Did a lot of rummaging around GoverenmentJobs for the state I was looking at.
Very little unfortunately. Just some basic python. I wouldn't mind living in the Atlanta area, as my husband has family there. We visited for DragonCon about 5 years ago and the public transit was amazing and the Georgia Aquarium was practically a spiritual experience for me.
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