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Any geologists here? What is it about geology that made you become a geologist? I'm not trying to start a flame war, just genuinely curious.

>> No.11422897

>>11422699
Money

>> No.11422903

Only turbo autists become geologists

>> No.11422908

The fame and women.

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>>11422699
>What is it about geology that made you become a geologist?
I like rocks.

>> No.11422921

>>11422916
Based. Rocks are cool and way better than some abstract squiggles like math

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>>11422921

>> No.11422934

Petroleum and knowing where the fuck you are stand.

>> No.11422944

>>11422921
geology involves a lot of physics and chemistry, and maths in the geometry side

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>>11422944
I chose this field because I thought it would be an easier science. That was the most wrong that I've ever been in my life.

>> No.11422973
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11422973

post some hot cleavage

>> No.11422992

Any astrogeologists here, what exactly do you do?

>> No.11423014

>>11422944
No it doesn't. Go back to your retard sand box, rock boy.

>> No.11423033

>>11423014
they extract ur silicon so you can continue shitposting

>> No.11423240

>>11422908
based

>> No.11423277

>>11423014
>T. Never took petrology, structure, tectonics, or geochemistry

>> No.11423297

>>11423277
Bruh, I'm a geophysicist that got published as a first author during my undergrad doing geochemistry research, your average geologist doesn't go past the usage of single variable calculus, linear algebra, and basic newtonian mechanics and basic electricity & magnetism, I still remember how many geologists had such a hard time with calculus and structural geology and how many of them didn't know how to program, and that says a lot coming from a geophysicist.

>> No.11423321

>>11422699
Physicist, not a geologist. Sometimes I wish I knew more about geology. The other day I was at a park and noticed all the rock outcrops were jutting out near vertically at the same angle. Interesting, but I don't understand the phenomenon that produced it or what it signifies. Also I wonder why there are so many different kind of pebbles in a creek bed. Shouldn't it mostly be fragments of the bedrock? So many questions, not enough time to study every subject.

>> No.11423332

>>11422903
Most of the females in geology are hot, fit, smart, friendly, and interesting

>> No.11423334

>>11423332
All geology girls are whores, I'm that geophysicist anon, they all get wasted god knows how many times and they all get old as fuck looking fast from all that drinking, it's sad man, bunch of dick riders, atleast the physicist girls are decent looking but won't fuck behind your back and party line rockstars.

>> No.11423337

>>11422903
Selfish and hyper competitive is more like it if one decides to work in o&g, academia and software programming is a no to that.

>> No.11423572

>>11423334
I can’t confirm the whoredom, but I can confirm the drinking.

>> No.11423628

>>11423572
I realized the field wasn't for me because I don't drink, that and I like teaching way more, also the most valuable knowledge I hot from it was knowing how hey academia is and coming to the realization that one doesn't have to have a lot of money or get a phd to feel happy, I feel a lot of people stick in that field for the $$$ and or prestige associated with it, personality clash was a factor as well.

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>>11422699
There is no money geology unless you have PhD. Otherwise you are doing something that is completely different than geology as a technician.

I've been in the business for several years now. No one does just "geology" in the way you learn it in schools. Because those jobs are almost nonexistent.

Get a geo engineering degree instead.

>> No.11423920

are there any jobs in geology?

>> No.11424038

>>11423920
Lots of jobs in geology, if you hold a masters degree, this is coming from the geophysicist anon who graduated from an incredibly famous earth science university whos students always get jobs in OaG, university of houston.

>> No.11424062

>>11422903
>calls people persuing their interests turbo autists
>while being a turbo autist
Ironic.

>> No.11424066

>>11422699
I became a geologist because how rocks got where they are and the stories of time the mountains tell fascinates me greatly.

>> No.11424067

>>11424066
And one day your research will help us when we begin to harvest asteroids and explore the solar system.

>> No.11424098

>>11422908
https://youtube.com/watch?v=8EmRCJET5T4

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I enjoy learning about the Earth (and other planets), now I get paid to make comfy simulations and do my PhD
>>11422944
Not really unless you're doing geophysics, geo/spatial statistics or hydrogeology

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>>11424067
Dude, I just got an email from the Colorado School of Mines to apply to their space mining degree. I'm actually considering it.

>> No.11424354

>>11423321
You seem like a good scientist.

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>>11422973
hhnnnggg,...

>> No.11424401
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i fucking love geology. but specifically rock formations

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learning about the processes and events that created these aspects would be interesting

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would be fun to go study these things

>> No.11424415

>>11424399
>>11424401
This looks like someone put playdough through a strainer-like device and it hardened over millions of years to give us this

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>>11424401
>i fucking love geology. but specifically rock formations
>a n d
>s o y

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>>11422966
kek

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>>11424417
>ifunny.co

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>> No.11424428

>>11424423
reported for balls touching on a sfw board

>> No.11424476 [DELETED] 

>>11423321
>Also I wonder why there are so many different kind of pebbles in a creek bed. Shouldn't it mostly be fragments of the bedrock?
It’s quite possible that it is. It would mean the creek cuts through more formations further upstream.

>> No.11424477

>>11424428
forgot to say no homo

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>>11424420

>> No.11425652

>>11422992
Not one but work with a bunch. They look at fresh probe data from Mars and Mercury all day, write papers about it all night. Good stuff.

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>>11422699

>> No.11426470

>>11422916
dangerously based

>> No.11426504

what’s academia like for geology, specifically geophysics and/or oceanography?

>> No.11426861

>>11426504
like being stuck between a rock and a hardplace

>> No.11426889

>>11422699
7th grade earth science class

>> No.11427037

>>11425655
reporting for hate speech

>> No.11427039

How can one be so autistic to pursue fucking rocks

>> No.11427635

>>11427039
urb*Noid detected

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>>11426861

>> No.11428886

>>11422699
geology rocks, thats why

>> No.11428898

>>11422699
A teacher in a school I went said he did geology because he licked rocks, so yeah

>> No.11429669

>>11426504
Same like any other place, Grant's and research, more money due to obvious industry being oil and gas, you need to email earth science academics involved in both industry and academia to get the best viewpoints

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>>11422699
I have a B.S. in geology but I don't work in the field because I don't want to live in the middle of nowhere. The scientific background is nice to have though.

>> No.11430162

>>11429830
Right on brother, it's a very interesting and unique knowledge to have.

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>>11424401
>>11424399
>>11424403
>>11424418

NOOOOOOOOO!! YOU CAN'T JUST LOOK AND GET EXCITED AT COLUMNAR BASALTERINOS YOU GEO POSER!!!! THINK OF THE HECKIN GOOD SEDIMENTARY AND METAMORPHOSED ROCKOS!!!

>> No.11431078

>>11424410
>>11424413

found your mom's anal beads.

>> No.11431260 [DELETED] 

>>11427039
You got me. I don't know why I'm like this.

>> No.11431516

who here computational geology

>> No.11432920

Thought rocks were fucking stupid. My dad was a geologist and I thought it was lame. I finished all my sci credits in HS and took geology senior year bc our school had it and it was the “easy class”. Turned out to be the coolest thing ever. I’ve always loved science and I realized geology was really intuitive. Also my teacher studied the moon at NASA and I had always loved space and never really thought about what a geologist actually did

>> No.11432928

stop advertising this field. the market is already saturated with fucking geocucks.

>> No.11433243

>>11422699
I was always slightly intrigued by rocks and the lay of the land, but I was never even remotely interested in science. In CC I took geology and geography to fulfill course requirements and I fell in love with geology. Rocks and landforms are super interesting.

But this >>11423636 is very true. Also this >>11432928

>> No.11434157

>>11432928
t. mining and petroleum worker

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>>11423332
Correct.