Should I pursue my MS in Geophysics?

Graduate School
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<p>I currently graduated with an engineering degree as an undergraduate. I was really excited to enter geophysics in oil, but now I am not too sure. I got into a great oil and gas school for my masters, but I am not sure now if I want to pursue this career. </p>

<p>I got a job this summer in Houston. It's at a pretty small company. I seem to be having a very tough time at the desk life. I am a huge outside person. I am rarely inside on the weekend or any day I have off. I'll be outside hot, cold, snow, or shine. The office environment I am in is not really integrated either. It seems like I am on my own and I do not get to really talk to much of anyone.</p>

<p>Moreover, I want some advice from any geophysicist that works in oil. I am not sure I can handle the desk work, but maybe its just the work environment I am in? Do you ever get to go to a rig and visit? Do you get to leave work at all for other business meetings with clients or anything? Is you work environment cubicle like or are you always working with a team? Since I have an engineering degree, is there another job out there that would better suit me? Something with outside work and inside work?</p>

<p>PS: I do like Houston. I like the weather, the driving, beach, fishing, and other things around here. I do not think this is a factor. Driving is kind of a pain, but its ok.</p>

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<p>If you’re very outdoorsy, geology might be a better option for you than geophysics - not every branch of geology stays inside, and not every branch of geophysics stays inside, but the overall proportion leans towards geology. Outside of oil, you might also find environmental consulting interesting - lots of getting out to field sites to get mud on your boots. These companies recruit heavily from hydrology degrees, and a smattering of others as well. Keep in mind though, that at an oil-heavy school, oil recruiting season can dominate job placement - not that you can’t find other things, but you might have to do a little more sifting. Then again, I went to UT-Austin, and their oil recruiting season is especially intense.</p>

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<p>I think I’d rather be more into the drilling than the initial geology aspect. I like the machinery more than the rocks. Maybe I should be a field engineer? I do not mind being inside a few times a week, but I NEED that outside. </p>

<p>I never really thought that environmental consulting would be for me, but maybe that would be a path. I have never done it, so who am I to say it would be unenjoyable. I could love it for all I know. </p>

<p>Would you mind telling me what your business is in oil?</p>