FUTURE: CAREER, LIFE & EVERYTHING
Being part of a couple has a distinct impact on your career. You no longer have the flexibility you had when you were single. Do you want to travel as much? Where can your partner find work in his or her chosen field? Teachers, family practice MDs, and nurses are examples of professions with greater job mobility than many others. Investment bankers generally do not. If your job moves you to a different town, can your partner find suitable satisfying work as well?
Whose career opportunities will be pursued when? Some couples have had successful marriages despite the frequent or prolonged absence from home by one or both partners, but this seems to be the exception rather than the rule. Does one of you work for a firm providing family health coverage? One of the problems of hooking up with another geoscientist is that you both will be in similar job cycles. But marrying someone in another profession does not guarantee against both of you being simultaneously caught in downturns. I know this from personal experience.
Being part of a couple usually leads to two other life char- acteristics (features or bugs, depending on how you look at them), a house and children. The mortgage must be paid every month. Children have lots of ever changing needs and wants, most of which cost money. Your job provides the income but its location affects your style of life. Relocations are disruptive to a greater or lesser degree. Some locales have greater job opportunities than others. The same is true of educational, cultural, and other characteristics. Some people pick a place to live and do whatever is required to live in that place. Others follow their career, relocating whenever relocation is required.
While only you can provide answers to the issues discussed above, they are very real issues that you should carefully con- sider in planning your career. A planned career is far more likely to be successful and rewarding than an unplanned one.
While no one can see into the future, you can learn to spot trends and make necessary adjustments in what you are doing. You should have goals in mind. Although being open to serendipity is worthwhile as well. All your opinions and choices have consequences. Think about the consequences of your choices as you move through life.
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About the Author
David Abbott is a consulting mining geologist and geoscience ethics columnist. He specializes in the due diligence review of mineral reserve and resource estimates, in the review of disclosures about natural resources disclosures, and the review of mineral exploration and development programs for precious and base metals, and industrial minerals. He has been writing about geoscience professional ethics and practices since 1989, has published 176 Professional Ethics & Practices columns, and numerous articles for various geoscience societies. He has been a consultant since February 1996. AIPG has awarded him the Ben H. Parker Distinguished Service Award, the Martin Van Couvering Service to the Institute Award, Honorary Membership, and the John T. Galey, Sr. Public Service Award .
Mike Alfieri Named Senior Hydrogeologist at Water Science Associates
FORT MYERS, Fla. (Dec. 9, 2020) – Water Science Associates has named Mike Alfieri, P.G. MEM-0974, senior hydrogeologist for the hydrogeological consulting firm. Alfieri will join executive leaders Kirk Martin and Roger Copp in developing creative, sustainable and scientifically based solutions to water resource challenges across Florida. In response to the growing hydrological needs throughout the Southwest area, Alfieri and Copp will also establish a Tampa-based office to expand support services for clients in the region.
A nationally certified and registered hydrogeologist with more than 23 years of experience, Alfieri will manage hydrogeological and water resource engineering teams in the evaluation, planning design, permitting, and construction of water supply wells, deep injection wells, and managed aquifer recharge systems. He will also provide a wide range of technical skills in groundwater flow and transport modeling, statistical analysis of hydrologic data, water supply development, and resource management.
A professionally licensed geologist in 13 states, Alfieri is an established subject-matter expert recognized in the U.S. federal court and state of Florida court systems, having been retained numerous times by legal counsel for various clients. He is currently a board member and past chair of the Florida Board of Professional Geologists and the chairman of ASTM Sub-Committee on well design, maintenance and construction. Alfieri is also a published author to numerous peer-reviewed journal articles, conference proceedings, and an academic textbook, “The Karst Systems of Florida: Understanding Karst in a Geologically Young Terrain.”
“Mike is a perfect fit for our corporate growth strategies,” said Kirk Martin, president of Water Science Associates. “His well-established technical talents and client focus will be an added strength to the Water Science Team.”
Built on decades of experience, technical excellence, innovative thinking, and personal service, Water Science Associates provides water resources management and development services from planning, investigation, design, construction, and compliance for public and private water and wastewater utilities, high-quality land development projects, mining operations, and agricultural interests.
For more information, call 239-204-5300 or visit
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