u/Appalachianaxis

I am currently working my way towards a bachelors in Environmental Science and am fortunate enough to have a position in environmental education to supplement my income while I get it done. I absolutely adore my job and would be a-okay pursuing environmental education as a career if the opportunity presents itself. But I don’t want to limit my options and I’m eager to get some experience in other adjacent fields. I’ve already done some shifts with our local natural resources department, as well as some maintenance work, and I’m keen to tag along for some prescribed burns. I’m also signing myself up for some stormwater related trainings.

Any advice on how to continue to get myself some experience? Or suggestions of where I should be trying to get experience and grow my skill set? I am making this change as a working adult and I worry that once I get my degree potential employers may see a 30-something applicant with few years of part-time educational work as maybe a bit too broad or otherwise not bringing the right set of skills for other jobs.

Hey all, I’ll keep it quick and too the point:

Our new cat (Female cat, Lynx point Siamese, adopted, about 10 months old and maybe 10lbs) took a nibble of potato casserole the moment we had our head turned away.

We *just* lost our dog a few weeks ago so we are extremely paranoid about anything that might hurt her.

The dish itself had, at most, two very small cloves of finely minced garlic mixed into the entire (quite large) dish. No garlic or onion powder at all. Just potatoes butter and cheese.

She couldn’t have been nibbling on it for more than maybe five seconds grand total. And I’ve already done plenty of panic-googling and reading of similar posts here. From what I understand she’d need to eat a clove (though even a small clove is bad) of raw garlic before we get into true energy territory.

Still, having just lost our other pet any advice or love of mind means the world. We’re keeping an eye on her in the meantime.

Thank you.

Hi all. My partner and I have lived in the piedmont area of North Carolina all our lives and we’re strongly considering moving… somewhere else. If only for the sake of trying it.

We really do love a lot of North Carolina. Chapel Hill and Asheville in particular really feel like “home” to us. But we’ve got fatigue for where we live now. We’re also both in professions as educators. And North Carolina is, not put it mildly, a horrid place to try to be an educator.

We’re just getting started and are at least a year away from any possibility of moving. But we want to get as much advice and do as much research/preparation as we can!

Right now, these are a factors we’re considering:

1. Walkability and public transit are our number one most desired features. We both have disabilities that make driving difficult and unpleasant. We previously had some extremely good luck when we lived in Chapel Hill; just about everything we needed was within walking distance of our unit. Trails, groceries, entertainment, and more were all accessible without having to get in a car. And anything else we wanted could be accessed via bus.

2. Ideally we’d like to stay on the East coast, in order to stay close to both of our families. But we’d consider anywhere we felt was right for us.

3. Real seasons. Right now our springs are hot, our summers are ridiculous, our fall is hot, and winter is just grey sludge. We’d like to live somewhere where a snow day isn’t a “once-in-ten-years” kind of event.

That’s kind of all we have at the moment. Any insight is approached. Or heck, just any general advice for us going forward as we continue to plan for this.

Thanks very much!