• FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Same, except I am a legal tech and professional artist.

      I love that I can make my money in a dark, air-conditioned room and just read about all the cool shit we’re learning about dinosaurs.

    • Mossy Feathers (They/Them)
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      Same, kinda. I had literally decided by the advanced age of 5 that I would be a paleontologist. Then at some point I lost interest. I’m not sure if it was a lack of support or something else. Now I wish I was a paleontologist again. Instead I pretend to be a dinosaur on the internet.

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      I really wanted to be an archaeologist. I still love archaeology and take a keen amateur interest in it.

      But my knees would never have survived it.

    • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works
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      6 months ago

      Are there paleontology jobs which are primarily indoors? I’m thinking of tasks like removing the matrix from fossils which have already been dug up, but need to be prepared for preservation.