Marine Bio

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<p>I'm a junior and starting to seriously look down the road to my future. I always wanted to be a dolphin trainer growing up, so I wanted to major in marine biology. However, after starting to do some research, I'm not sure anymore considering dolphin trainers average about $40,000 a year, and that marine biologists don't actually do much field work and just sit on their butts and write up documents. It also turns me off that I have to get a PhD and all that jazz, which is a lot more than 4 years of college. My main question is, is do marine biologists actually do all that boring work? Isn't there a career which involves diving and lots of field study instead of two weeks out of the whole year and working with the animals to research? I really got turned off reading about the actual career of marine bio, and I would do the work to get into it if there was some possible job where I could work with them every day and do research on them in the wild very often.</p>

<p>Also, what are some good colleges for biology? I understand I must first major in bio then branch out.</p>

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<p>In the sciences, it probably isn’t unusual to spend relatively little time in the lab or the field gathering data, and then spend much of the rest of the time analyzing the data in an office. Then you have to write the papers and seek out funding for the next study.</p>

<p>Cetaceans are intelligent animals that deserve to be left to live their own lives. There are laws and regulations protecting them in the wild, so opportunities to study them are, and should be, limited.</p>