Palaeontology as a career

taram

Yep, I'm one of those people who was digging up their garden at age 9 looking for bones, and after just completing a biology/geology hybrid degree, have decided to hunt some more bones in a postgrad. What I'd love is knowledge of yourself, or people you know who have studied, or worked in the general area of prehistoric dead things, whether in a museum, dig site or whatever, and how they got there. I'm particularly fond of arthropods and evolutionary science, just not entirely sure how to get there! Saw in another thread here DCU have palaeontologists, but they don't seem to have a postgrad on the site.

Thanks in advance, I know it's a long shot and that I'll probably end up in a job that's got nothing to do with it, but I have some time, have some money and have a lot of willingness to learn about it, so decided to go for it.

Galvasean

I seem to remember back in the day (CAO) that Trinity had a palaeontology module as part of one of their geology courses. I know for certain that they have both a Palaeontological Association and a Paleontological Society, although to what extent they operate I'm not certain.
I also seem to remember seeing a course on Palaeoecology(sp?) in Belfast.

I'll see if I can find anything else.

Canis_major

http://www.palass.org/modules.php?name=palaeo&sec=careers