Geography based subjects and jobs?

Remmy

Hi all
I'm not fully sure what I want to do yet.I do have a great flair and interest in Geography.Aside from teaching it could someone give me a few ideas regards geography based subjects and also jobs that these would lead into.Also if anyone is doing a coarse in this field i would really appreciate hearing from them.
Thanks

Jello

From Trinity's website (where you can study Geography through Science and Arts):

Career opportunities

A wide range of career options is potentially available to geography graduates. The combination of a broad-based discipline and training in highly relevant transferable skills is valued in today’s job market, where adaptability and flexibility are widely regarded as assets. Careers taken up by graduating Geography students in recent years include urban and regional planning, environmental consultancy and research and teaching as well as positions in such areas as financial services (including insurance), foreign affairs, leisure and tourism and overseas development.

Also I suppose Geology could be of interest to you:

Career opportunities

Recent graduates have found professional career opportunities with oil and mining companies, civil engineering firms, geological and environmental consultancies, organisations based in computing and information systems, and government geological surveys. Geology graduates are also highly valued in more generalised fields of employment due to their adaptability, their many transferable skills and their experience at dealing with incomplete data sets.

Piste

Geography is so broad there are tons of careers you could follow if you have an interest in it! Is there any aspect of geography in particular you like?

implausible

Friend of mine did a Masters in Geography and now works in the planning department of a county council.

PurpleFistMixer

Geography is a ridiculously broad subject, like there's social/economic geography as well as the physical stuff... my parents studied geography back in the day and my mum worked for an oil company after that... That was a focus on the physical side of geography though. Planning and stuff comes into it a bit too afaik, though civil engineering might also be involved... (I didn't do geography for LC, I'm just going by what was in JC geography, and stuff I've heard.) So yeah. Lots of options, really. Depends what part of geography appeals to you, I suppose.

Royale with Cheese

As a Geography graduate I can tell you that your career options will be pretty limited. Planning is the only thing you can really do with your degree, but you'll need to go on and do a Masters in that and they can be quite tough to get into.

Suppose there's GIS stuff you may be able to get into, bit of a long shot though I'd say. There's probably a few other areas too I'm not aware of, because I didn't really look into it, but I'd reckon for any geography based job you'll need to have done a masters specialising in that area, and the competition for those jobs will be fierce.

As the poster above said, Geography is a ridiculously broad subject. It suffers from that imo. It doesn't really know what it is, courses I took in final year could have been run by the economics, history, or sociology departments. I found it quite interesting and enjoyable (bar the traditional physical geography stuff, couldn't stand that), but if you're looking for employment prospects look elsewhere.

Ardscoil Ris

You could become a geologist.

Geology Rocks!!!

The Paws

Hi!

What kind of Geology jobs you end up with?
thanks

masti.cool

There are various option like:

Agricultural Specialists
Cartographers
Demographers
Forest Managers
GIS & Remote Sensing Specialists
Regional & Urban Planners

I have seen related link:

http://inspiringbeans.com/detail/article/article/BA-in-Geography-Opportunity-jobs-for-you/