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<blockquote data-quote="Mark Reynolds" data-source="post: 1833183" data-attributes="member: 43196"><p>Some of you might find this fascinating. I'll answer the thread that [USER=968]@Jeanne - Simme Valley[/USER] started here. I can answer this, but only if you loosely interpret what 'Cattle Business' means, as I do not own livestock or a farm, unless 4 cats, a rabbit and 2 Guinea pigs count.</p><p>For as long as I can remember, and beyond that if you include what my parents, aunts, uncles and grandparents say and have said, I have had an affinity with nature in general. This includes trees, flowers, birds, fish, mammals. Pretty much anything associated with the outdoors. I was a Boy Scout (I am an Eagle Scout) and loved camping. Tents, campfires, trees, rain, cold, heat, mosquitoes. Yep, everything. I excelled in academia as well. I wanted to become a wildlife conservationist. My high school guidance counselor saw that as a waste and tried to get me to focus on something.......more lucrative and a field that didn't have 20 college graduates for every position. He was trying to get me to focus on environmental regulation. Well, he did turn my focus, probably more to get him off my back, to veterinary medicine. This wasn't too much of a stretch from 'conservation/wildlife' and I was able to still work towards wildlife while focusing on pre-vet coursework. At the same time, my pre-vet focus also prepared me for a degree in Animal Science. after 3 undergraduate years at Purdue University, I was at a crossroads, in more ways than one. I applied to vet schools, I had 2 different Bachelor's degrees I could complete in one additional year of undergraduate work, and I proposed and had a marriage sometime on the horizon. A lot going on. Well, I was accepted for admission to the University of Dublin, Ireland, veterinarian program. Here's the kicker. I turned it down. Does anyone have any idea how competitive admission to a veterinarian program is, especially one of this magnitude? I decided to go to Purdue for 2 more years and complete both Bachelor's degrees, Animal Science and Wildlife Science. And then I got married. During this whole time I was crafting/had crafted a way to combine the 2 BS degrees into a career that I could use the skills from both. Now enter into the picture being admitted to Oregon State University for a Master's degree in Rangeland Resources. No one from the Eastern US ever entered this realm as it was so foreign, combining wildlife/natural ecosystem management with livestock production. This kind of management was (and still is) sorely lacking east of the Mississippi River (academic trained expertise in it anyway). I had a professor (NRCS employee as he wore multiple hats) that anyone getting a range degree would be able to offer the eastern US so much if they went there. Problem is, no one from the west wanted to go there. I can't imagine why. <sarcasm>. Anyway, I went back east (I grew up in Indiana). Applied for and got on with the NRCS. I had always wanted to work for the federal government since my first year at Purdue. Now I am working for the NRCS (federal government) utilizing the skills from all 3 of my degrees, am relatively close to home, and am happily married. And I get to "Help People Help the Land" all over the country with my career. I help cattle producers (and other livestock producers) with their grazing operations.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mark Reynolds, post: 1833183, member: 43196"] Some of you might find this fascinating. I'll answer the thread that [USER=968]@Jeanne - Simme Valley[/USER] started here. I can answer this, but only if you loosely interpret what 'Cattle Business' means, as I do not own livestock or a farm, unless 4 cats, a rabbit and 2 Guinea pigs count. For as long as I can remember, and beyond that if you include what my parents, aunts, uncles and grandparents say and have said, I have had an affinity with nature in general. This includes trees, flowers, birds, fish, mammals. Pretty much anything associated with the outdoors. I was a Boy Scout (I am an Eagle Scout) and loved camping. Tents, campfires, trees, rain, cold, heat, mosquitoes. Yep, everything. I excelled in academia as well. I wanted to become a wildlife conservationist. My high school guidance counselor saw that as a waste and tried to get me to focus on something.......more lucrative and a field that didn't have 20 college graduates for every position. He was trying to get me to focus on environmental regulation. Well, he did turn my focus, probably more to get him off my back, to veterinary medicine. This wasn't too much of a stretch from 'conservation/wildlife' and I was able to still work towards wildlife while focusing on pre-vet coursework. At the same time, my pre-vet focus also prepared me for a degree in Animal Science. after 3 undergraduate years at Purdue University, I was at a crossroads, in more ways than one. I applied to vet schools, I had 2 different Bachelor's degrees I could complete in one additional year of undergraduate work, and I proposed and had a marriage sometime on the horizon. A lot going on. Well, I was accepted for admission to the University of Dublin, Ireland, veterinarian program. Here's the kicker. I turned it down. Does anyone have any idea how competitive admission to a veterinarian program is, especially one of this magnitude? I decided to go to Purdue for 2 more years and complete both Bachelor's degrees, Animal Science and Wildlife Science. And then I got married. During this whole time I was crafting/had crafted a way to combine the 2 BS degrees into a career that I could use the skills from both. Now enter into the picture being admitted to Oregon State University for a Master's degree in Rangeland Resources. No one from the Eastern US ever entered this realm as it was so foreign, combining wildlife/natural ecosystem management with livestock production. This kind of management was (and still is) sorely lacking east of the Mississippi River (academic trained expertise in it anyway). I had a professor (NRCS employee as he wore multiple hats) that anyone getting a range degree would be able to offer the eastern US so much if they went there. Problem is, no one from the west wanted to go there. I can't imagine why. <sarcasm>. Anyway, I went back east (I grew up in Indiana). Applied for and got on with the NRCS. I had always wanted to work for the federal government since my first year at Purdue. Now I am working for the NRCS (federal government) utilizing the skills from all 3 of my degrees, am relatively close to home, and am happily married. And I get to "Help People Help the Land" all over the country with my career. I help cattle producers (and other livestock producers) with their grazing operations. [/QUOTE]
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