Is wildlife bio worth it?
So I'm dual enrolled with a community college and OSU. I'm doing my first year at the CC starting fall 26' and then going to OSU for the last 3 years. My problem is I thought I wanted to major in ECE but realized I want to not work with ai, and want to be more involved in the environment, helping animals, field work, chemistry, and biology.
So far, I've found wildlife biology, wildlife conservation, and oceanography interesting, but I keep seeing that jobs in conservation and wildlife bio are very competitive, low paying, and unstable. I believe I want to get a PhD but I'm not quite sure. Plus I prefer chemistry over biology, so is there a lot of chemistry classes in the major?
Oceanography seems really cool, and if I were to get a PhD in it I would do chemical oceanography, but I'm not quite sure what it fully entails. Will I be on boats or submarines a lot? If you're a oceanographer please let me know, and I'm really new to ocean studies so I'm a bit afraid tbh. Were you afraid in the beginning?
This is a lot of questions, so I apologize, but if you know anything please comment! Thank you :)