I was a weather forecaster for a few years in the military. I did everything from weather briefs to combat weather graphics, annalyzing data, Med Evacs, and actual forecasts for S Cntrl US. I've been out for three years now, but I'm curious if this is enough experience to apply for any sort of forecasting job?
2006-11-21 07:52:33 · 4 answers · asked by Suse 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Weather
"No experience" is enough to apply for a job - the question is do you have a realistic chance of being hired? I would say yes.
A couple people mentioned college degress, but the thing they don't teach much in school (any - K-doctoral) but should spend about 80% of the time on is how to weasel your way in (or out) of something. In the real world, that is by far the most important skill - how much you learned or how accurately you can forecast pales in comparison. Other factors - who someone knows and more importantly who (dis)likes him/her and for what reasons, what (s)he believes and likes, etc. is a larger factor regarding not only whether a person is hired, but what type of position (s)he is given.
I cannot really say without knowing exactly what your tasks involved, but IMO your experience did much more for you than a 4-year atmospheric science program where in the time they are not pulling their heads out of their asses, they are studying something other than weather analysis & forecasting. Yet during the time they spent doing that with their heads, you were taking orders from someone...still you spent some time doing something useful.
Probably good to lie or embellish things on your resume in your favor, because my experience has been that if you tell the truth they will assume you are lying - so maybe they think the liars are telling the truth.
All things being equal, military experience will help your chances - unless it was for the Rebuplican Guard.
2006-11-21 12:10:01 · answer #1 · answered by Joseph 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Put yourself in their shoes, weather is boring and no one cares about it until something big happens. They're probably more amazed than happy about it. You'd be really bored if you were doing the weather and the weather was always nice. It's like wow something is finally happening and the weather is the big news for a change. Everybody likes the spotlight every now and then.
2016-03-29 04:32:45 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
3-4 yrs, with an degree
2006-11-21 07:55:24 · answer #3 · answered by simiarah 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
most do get a degree.
2006-11-21 07:54:25 · answer #4 · answered by cork 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋