Graduate Research Topic Relevance
Since graduating with a BS in fish and wildlife conservation I have gotten a mix of terrestrial wildlife and fisheries experience. I think my long term goal is to be a biologist for state/federal agency and ideally I think I want to work with mammals.
However, I see a very interesting and appealing graduate opportunity that deals with freshwater fish.
How much does that matter for a long term career goal like mine? I get the species focus isn’t ideal but I think there are a good amount of transferable skills. This opportunity is focused on movement ecology so there would be some telemetry experience. I would also build experience in quantitative analysis, academic writing, and research/thesis experience.
Even with transferable skills like this would I be shoehorned into fisheries work forever or would I be able to frame it in a way that could still get me into terrestrial wildlife jobs?