u/Elegant_Ad_7023

Hello!!

Im 16 years old, in Highschool as a now Junior and I have a question regarding my future career. I’m really fixated when it comes to Greenhouse work and gardening, though I have no experience with actually working with flowers or landscaping work, unfortunately only housework(which I haven’t even done since 3 years ago besides taking care of my two plants I do have). I’m also not too smart in the science department but I do honestly want to try botany, or atleast something in that department, and I even have started on my resume so I can get a job at a bookstore since they do have a bouquet section that they tend to, and grow themselves. I’ve even have an extra curricular class, agriculture, and ive changed my science class to Meteorology(I believe) so I can learn the evolution of the earth and how it grew from then-on. Sure it’s not completely how plants grow and such, but either way I am quite fascinated in the earth itself.

Now the actual question, how do I grow my career to actually getting into botanical work? Is there any specific things that would make my resume basically glow, look more eye-catching, etc? I’m sure I can try to do charity work to help grow my experience, but what I’m not sure is if my legal guardian could take me from and back everytime, since I’m also planning on joining a sport, roller derby in the meantime, plus my mother takes my sister to her job during weekends. I genuinely really want to work on horticulture, maybe more around the floriculture department but either way I’d still love it, and I really do wanna pursue my career in it. I might also move to Europe eventually, so I’m also not quite sure the payment in euros someone would normally get, or even if there’s many greenhouses around that get good pay, even around Oklahoma. Is there anyway someone could inform me of what steps I should take, how I should move forward, maybe even what college classes I could take in the future and just any advice at all?
I’m genuinely really curious about this, I really want to work in this industry a lot. Thank you !!

Hello!!

Im 16 years old, in Highschool as a now Junior and I have a question regarding my future career. I’m really fixated when it comes to Greenhouse work and gardening, though I have no experience with actually working with flowers or landscaping work, unfortunately only housework(which I haven’t even done since 3 years ago besides taking care of my two plants I do have). I’m also not too smart in the science department but I do honestly want to try botany, or atleast something in that department, and I even have started on my resume so I can get a job at a bookstore since they do have a bouquet section that they tend to, and grow themselves. I’ve even have an extra curricular class, agriculture, and ive changed my science class to Meteorology(I believe) so I can learn the evolution of the earth and how it grew from then-on. Sure it’s not completely how plants grow and such, but either way I am quite fascinated in the earth itself.

Now the actual question, how do I grow my career to actually getting into botanical work? Is there any specific things that would make my resume basically glow, look more eye-catching, etc? I’m sure I can try to do charity work to help grow my experience, but what I’m not sure is if my legal guardian could take me from and back everytime, since I’m also planning on joining a sport, roller derby in the meantime, plus my mother takes my sister to her job during weekends. I genuinely really want to work on horticulture, maybe more around the floriculture department but either way I’d still love it, and I really do wanna pursue my career in it. I might also move to Europe eventually, so I’m also not quite sure the payment in euros someone would normally get, or even if there’s many greenhouses around that get good pay, even around Oklahoma. Is there anyway someone could inform me of what steps I should take, how I should move forward, maybe even what college classes I could take in the future and just any advice at all?
I’m genuinely really curious about this, I really want to work in this industry a lot. Thank you !!