Summer Jobs

So, it is officially summer and I am loving it. I am staying at Cornell over half of the summer studying Ornate Box Turtles, with two professors, Andy McCollum and Bob Black. We are trying to determine if digging false nests around real nests will protect the eggs inside the real nests. However, after a few nights most of the nests where dug up and the eggs eaten , so our experiments are pretty much done and we still have three and a half weeks left of the internship. There are two shifts that we have been working. The day shift is pretty short and easy we look for turtles in a prairie for about an hour and a half and measure any that we find. On the other hand the night shift is terribly long and quite demanding. We tromp through thorn bushes, wetlands, and poison ivy in order to find turtles with transmitters on their back. Most of the time its raining or the dew is really bad, so you're soaking wet while looking.

Ornate Box Turtle

After the internship is done I'm hoping I can find a job elsewhere, but by the looks of it I'll be hard pressed to find one. A lot of my friends have not found a job yet and who is to say I'm better qualified than them. However I think that Bob Fulwider will be able to get me a position at his insurance agency, where I will sit behind a desk and organize stuff. It's pretty good for an office job, but that's just it. It's an office job, I would much rather get rained on in the field then have to sit behind a desk for hours upon end. I wouldn't complain though I would be earning money for school next year.