Animal Behavior Programs/Jobs?

Question

Kind of a two part question:

I have a BA in psychology. I'd really like to do work involving animal behavior. I'm trying to avoid grad school if I can. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to find a job in this field with just a BA in psych (i.e. research assistant). Hours of web searching has not helped me at all. I just get a bunch of sites telling me what I can do with my degree, but not any actual links to potential jobs.

I've not entirely ruled out grad school, but I am having trouble finding what schools have animal behavior programs with an emphasis in psychology and not biology because I never studied bio in college. The only one I have been able to find is Bucknell.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Try www.craigslist.org, they have a section for jobs do a search there, they may have something.

Answer 2

I can tell from your introduction that the majority of what you know about Native Americans and animals has come straight out of a book. To do this subject justice, you'd need to go spend some serious time with real live Native Americans (not just a few activists) and an equal amount of time with animals outside the pet, activist, and wildlife rescue worlds. I'm not sure you have the time or the connections to make this subject be any more than simply a regurgitation of what has already been printed. Which is fine, I suppose, but seems a waste of paper and time to me. How about choosing something you know about that includes research you can do from where you are? Maybe something on how on-campus college life changes people. Or something humorous about how you know everything when you graduate high school, then you go to college and find out you're dumb again. Then when you graduate college, you KNOW you know everything and then you get a job. That one could be really fun if handled right.

Answer 3

Check into Monster.com, and other job connection site such as provided by all the newspapers. Try Hearst publications and you can look nationwide (or U.S.A. Today, etc.). Also rely on you Alma Maters job placement services as they should have some of the best lists for who employees their graduates. Good luck.