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Princess20
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Jul 15, 2004, 9:44 PM

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I hope you can help with my career assessment. I'm considering new options for a career. I'm using a workbook that helps me analyze my skills and interests. I've narrowed my interests down to a Top 3:

1)The movie industry (production, editing)
2)Bicycling
3)Sustainable living

Has anyone ever heard of a career that combines all of the above interests?

Thanks!


videobear
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Jul 16, 2004, 9:04 AM

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Well, you could shoot a documentary about Lance Armstrong. It'll probably be such a best seller that you'll have to live in a yurt and tend goats to survive. That'd combine all three!

Or, more seriously:
- Take college courses in, probably, environmental sciences, civil engineering, agriculture, and power generation. This could be at least a double major with heavy minors in other subjects, and is probably a five or six year course of study.
- Join a company, or start one, that specializes in consulting on sustainable development.
- As part of your services, or as a sideline, produce instructional videos on topics relating to the sustainable lifestyle. Probably market them through Mother Earth News and similar publications.
- Live close enough to work to ride your bike, and/or join a cycling club and ride on the weekends.




Regards,
Doug Graham
Panda Productions


grinner
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Jul 17, 2004, 6:14 PM

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a wise man once said "college is aplace where young people go to find out who they are."
Give it a shot. It's fun if nothing else and I can almost promise you'll figure out what is is you are suppose to do with your life without having to fill out a questionare.
Make a documaentary about it while commuting on your bike and kill 3 birds with one stone.