Quest For Renewable/Alternative Energy, and/or “Green” Careers
It has been quite a while since I contemplated going back to school for further education. With the recent presidential election around the corner I am hearing quite a bit about the quest to find renewable energy sources, and the idea that there is going to be a big push for jobs in alter4native energy. Although this is a minor reason why I am interested in studying this, it does play a factor that Green energy is probably a more secure field for the next couple decades at least. I tend to cover interesting stories here as often as possible on renewable energy news, but now I think that I may start sharing a bit about my search to find a career in the new Green Energy world.
This is actually my reason for the rant about Google search in the last post. Google failed miserably in my search for just what constitutes a career in the Green Energy fields. In fact, there is almost no real information in the first several pages of Google for any of the renewable energy careers searches you would think of to research this topic. There were quite a few Made for Adsense sites, natural energy pills sites, as well as a couple of colleges that spammed their way to the top, but when it comes to finding discussions about alternative energy careers there just wasn’t a whole lot out there. Surprisingly, these “Green Energy” keywords are relatively wide open with the array of options if you are looking for a place to scoot into the search results. Just like finance keywords, the webmasters know very little about SEO for the most part. Sorry…still can’t let SEO stuff slide by unnoticed when I search for anything…LOL
My situation is a little bit different as well. It is common sense that the field of engineering is tops on the list when it comes to these green energy careers. Either that or some sort of environmental sciences. That is all very nice, but i have a degree in Finance already. I am looking for a degree that has something to do with Green Business Careers. Something that is more or less a hybrid of business in the green energy sector. Business is a widespread field and business principals are standard a crossed most areas, however there is still a need to be knowledgeable about the sector you plan to work in. There is certainly a Green Business degree program out there. I know there is a Business/Engineering hybrid out there because I was enrolled in it when I was in school until I decided that I wanted to work as a private practice financial advisor and switched my degree path.
So…where will I have to look? It appears that the internet is going to fail me for the first time in a long time to find real information on this. I have to go outside (Oh my) and talk to a real guidance counselor I guess.
I will try to follow through on this. Time is pretty limited right now, but I really have always wanted to get into this area of study as alternative energy is one of the things I am most interested in (Probably #2 behind helping inventors, but they are hand in hand). This is going to be a very big deal in the coming years, and is definitely an area of study that will likely keep you employed for a couple decades at least. Promises of government created jobs in the field certainly help drive the need for workers in this sector at least. Of course these are political promises from liars so we never know. I guess it depends more on if Obama, or McCain get elected as well. I figured that this is an important topic of research considering the lack of information out there about it so i will post my findings as they come in.
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Hello JMH,
I am on the same quest as you are, the internet does have its limits on this subject matter.
I have always had a passion for a “greener” country. I am very much an amatuer, but I am building a website devoted to this subject. Its a new site and with no budget there is no outside help, I am trying to get as much information about this subject as well. It probably doesnt have any new information that you are probably looking for but you never know.
http://www.goliath0825.com
Nice info Will definitely come back again soon-