Posted by Meri-Tuuli on November 8, 2006, at 14:43:12
In reply to Re: yes..... » Meri-Tuuli, posted by Declan on November 8, 2006, at 14:17:16
yeah hey!
> So what kind of work is there for green geologists?
Actually a surprising amount, there's contaiminated land, hydrogeology (you're desperate in Oz for hydrogeologists; apparently its up there with plumbers), blah blah blah......
> Did you not go to the assessment centre because of Shell and the politics and all?
No, I wish I could flatter myself that I stood my ground and things, but in truth I was rather bemused as to why they wanted to employ me in the first place and also because the assesment centre thing coincided with my first major depressive episode....then I just kept delaying it and delaying it, and then I thought I'd blown my chances because of taking a semester out for my depression thing and then I kinda gave up mainly due to the arrogance of youth, and well sounds silly, but I only applied because they told me to! And I was rather unconfident about the whole thing.
> I suppose it's hard from a green point of view to be part of the exploitation of fossil fuel reserves.
Yes. Very. Argh! There are some very 'dirty' aspects of geology.... but then, I guess the only truely honorable thing is to make a living so you can put food on your table...everythings dirty to a degree. And even the eco-warriers let me down, I knew this person who was totally cool, only later I accidentally discovered she had a pile of shares in BP she didn't so happen to mention on her 'I hate fossil fuel spiel'.....sigh.
> I just thought. You could go to Norilsk. (Reasonably close, nice boat trip in the summer? Keep checking my globe)
> Not to work(!), just for a visit. It'd be interesting.Yeah it sure would. It really would. Actually I keep meaning to make it to St Petersburg, which is only 5 hours on the train away.... thing is, okay Russia may be geographically close, but its a whole world apart culturally/economically/socially..... Finns have an innate fear of the Russians, who can blame them. Russia could take us in three seconds...... they have done in the past!
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