- Hannah Rockwell

Career Woman

       What is the difference between a job and a career? For Betsy Rogers, a 25-year-old woman with long brown hair and a smile on her face, her volunteer job educating people about estuaries, ecosystems, and the environment is a career because she loves what she does. “I love it! I love it! I’m really passionate about science education,” Betsey said
       Betsy has been working on her biology degree with a secondary certification in education at a college in coastal Georgia on and off for the last seven years and wants to teach biology when she graduates. Betsy wants to teach in places that educate people of all ages like museums and education centers rather than at a school where kids get bored while she talks and writes on a board all day. “ I want to be able to take my students out in the mud and put gross things in their hands until they’re like, wow, that’s so cool,” Betsey said.
       While completing her degree Betsy has worked for Birds of Prey, an estuary reserve in Georgia, and the National Estuary Research Reserve in Alaska. Betsy has been teaching people about biology and ecology for the last seven years. Betsy knows that everyone needs book learning, but likes to watch people learn things for themselves. “I feel like if you learn the scientific method you can gain knowledge about stuff and use it to find out if what people tell you is BS or not. It’s just really cool to be able to teach yourself something,” Betsey said.
       A job or a career? A career is something you enjoy doing to make money and a job is something you just do to make money. Many people in the United States have jobs instead of careers because they don’t enjoy their work but Betsy is one of the lucky few who looks forward to going to work everyday. How many other people do you know who can honestly say, “I love it!” when referring to their job?