What should I do
Hi everyone, I just wanted to ask for some advice because lately I’ve been feeling really overwhelmed trying to figure out my future in environmental science.
I study in a Gulf country as a resident/non-citizen, and honestly sometimes it feels like no matter how hard I work, there are still opportunities I won’t have access to. There were even field trips I got excluded from even though they weren’t sensitive places or anything serious, which was frustrating.The thing is, I actually work really hard academically — I currently have the highest GPA in my class — but I still feel lost when it comes to building an actual career path. Internship opportunities are especially difficult because a lot of them require citizenship/nationality as a basic condition, so even finding experience feels hard sometimes.
With the situation in my home country too, I keep worrying about my future and where I’m supposed to go from here. I’m interested in a lot of environmental fields, which honestly makes choosing even harder. Part of me wants to pick something I genuinely enjoy, but another part of me is scared of ending up in a field with low opportunities or low pay, especially since I hope one day I can build opportunities abroad too.So I wanted to ask people here: if you were in my position, what would you focus on? Which environmental fields do you think are worth investing time into right now in terms of growth, opportunities, and international mobility? And how do you build experience when local opportunities are already limited?
I’d really appreciate hearing honest experiences or advice from people in the field.