hemlockdalise

I've heard that asking questions like "Do you have any concerns about anything on my CV" are good, opens up you to explain it and then you know what you might want to edit for later. Plus it's something they don't hear very often and you're genuinely interested in their reply so you're more memorable.

The problem with that, and the mandatory unpaid internships, is that they're gradually replacing entry routes and becoming a dead end where you volunteer/intern until you need money too badly and have to stop and then they pick up a new one. If you're lucky someone in a paid position leaves and they look at the volunteer pool, but it's not that likely.

This is pretty much exactly what I've been doing, but I just finished university (graduating in June) with a Biology degree and now I've got no idea what to do. My university shut down the Biology/zoology programs and fired a load of professors, so there's no direct route to a Masters or PhD under my honours professor as there was previously, and the uni careers service was absolutely no help.

Any pointers for someone that thinks working in Science communications, particularly documentaries, is an absolute dream, but has no clue where to go next?

(If you have any internships, sign me up! I'm on the wrong continent but I don't care, I'm a big fan and I promise not to get in the way.)

I've got a BSc and MSc, but am having no luck at all getting a job or academic position in my field. I'm currently teaching English in Japan since it was that or go back to part-timing at a restaurant.

What advice can you give for someone that would like to either work with/study animals (behavioural ecology) or do something like science outreach/education/presentation at a museum or conservation area? (I love teaching, but in my field and with people that want to be there, not as a school teacher. My favourite "job" was a summer volunteering at the NHM London in their butterfly house and that was 50% butterfly care and maintenance and 50% pointing out cool things and giving talks and demonstrations)