Australia's mining sector is facing its "worst skills crisis in generations", and leaders say the key challenge is convincing environmentally conscious young people to join its ranks.
The age of millenials is over. The time of Gen Z is at hand. Rip me I guess.
i used to think it would be cool to be a miner or preferably a mine geologist. i had a school lined up for geology, letters from some professors, etc but not enough money. maybe it's for the best because my young self would have probalbly been scooped up by the fossil fuel industry for big $ esp after a very expensive phd and resulting debt. if we end up getting evil tankie forced labor i'd definitely choose miner if our working conditions are good. i like being underground, i like digging, and i like rocks and minerals.
yep then i definitely would have been easily bought if i had gone though with it. my dream was USGS volcanology but i saw how little i'd make and abandoned that path before i started
You should never be paying for grad school, they should be paying you. I don't even mean this in a communist "students are workers" way, I mean factually to our modern world your professors sucked if they were gonna make you pay for your PhD. The main cost becomes field schools or field seasons as well as cost of living, but you get a stipend to do student-teaching that offsets the cost of living a bit.
Edit: I should clarify for folks that don't have field schools or field seasons, there are workshops or internships or summer projects or bootcamp which are the equivalent and will rack up a cost.
i used to think it would be cool to be a miner or preferably a mine geologist. i had a school lined up for geology, letters from some professors, etc but not enough money. maybe it's for the best because my young self would have probalbly been scooped up by the fossil fuel industry for big $ esp after a very expensive phd and resulting debt. if we end up getting evil tankie forced labor i'd definitely choose miner if our working conditions are good. i like being underground, i like digging, and i like rocks and minerals.
Yep geology and geography majors are just a funnel for the fossil fuel industry for like 80% of majors.
yep then i definitely would have been easily bought if i had gone though with it. my dream was USGS volcanology but i saw how little i'd make and abandoned that path before i started
Yeah it really sucks that the cool public good stuff underpays or just doesn't have enough positions (or both).
capitalism kills human potential.
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You should never be paying for grad school, they should be paying you. I don't even mean this in a communist "students are workers" way, I mean factually to our modern world your professors sucked if they were gonna make you pay for your PhD. The main cost becomes field schools or field seasons as well as cost of living, but you get a stipend to do student-teaching that offsets the cost of living a bit.
Edit: I should clarify for folks that don't have field schools or field seasons, there are workshops or internships or summer projects or bootcamp which are the equivalent and will rack up a cost.