If you are interested in working with animals as a career, there are hundreds of opportunities available in today's job market. Aside from the traditional offerings, new "niche businesses" open up every day. Finding a fun job that involves working with animals will require some time, self-reflection, and research.
Obviously, you care about animals and want to spend your life working with them. The first thing you need to do is evaluate your personal likes and dislikes. Do you want to work with small or large animals? Exotic, wild, or domesticated? Cats, dogs, horses, birds, tigers, bears, or marine mammals? Do you like teaching, working outdoors, in the country, traveling, or do you love the water? Once you determine some of the answers to these basic questions, you can begin to narrow down the wide variety of choices and focus your research in a specific area.
Two of your primary resources will be the library and the Internet, but don't be afraid to contact your local veterinarian's office, game warden, zoo, aquarium, shelter, rescue group, or college. There are also professional associations that are excellent sources of career information. Your local employment office or career center can also be a good resource for local and state job information. Looking through the phone book's Yellow Pages, under "animal or pet services, zoos, aquariums, shelters, etc." will offer you another source of potential contacts. Most business owners, trainers, zoo personnel, rescue groups, clinics, or vet offices would be happy to chat with you about possible careers in this field or allow you to become a volunteer at their facility and gain first-hand knowledge and experience.
TRADITIONAL JOBS:
* Veterinarian, vet assistant, technician, or technologist.
* Shelter, kennel, or rescue personnel.
* Animal control officers.
* Pet-care/store business owner.
* Pet groomer, handler, dog walker or pet sitter.
* Animal trainers: dogs, horses, or marine mammals.
* Animal behaviorist.
* Animal adoption counselor.
* Humane educator or officer.
* Farmer or rancher.
* Game warden or park ranger.
* Wildlife manager.
* Zoo or aquarium personnel.
* Jockey or dog/cat show personnel.
SOME NON-TRADITIONAL JOBS:
* Pet hotel owner.
* Pet bakery shop owner.
* Doggie and kitty daycare business.
* Pet photographer.
* Wildlife photographer.
* Working with organizations, like Helping Hands that provide animal assistants to the physically challenged.
* Designing adaptive devices for disabled animals.
We can't forget the scientific options, if you are so inclined, involving animal health technology, biological, zoological, research, and biomedical careers, or the amusement park opportunities, like Sea World and Disney World.
These examples are only a few of the career choices available for anyone contemplating a career involving the animal kingdom. Make sure that you understand that this type of work is not always glamorous or safe. There is a very good chance you will get dirty at some point, and run the risk of being scratched, kicked, or bitten, at least once, during your career.
A good starting point, to get an idea of the training requirements, job outlook, and earning potential for specific jobs, can be found on-line at: www.bls.gov/oco. (The handbook is also available at most libraries.) The publication also provides updated, quarterly articles on a variety of current, animal-related work topics.
If you have a respect and love for animals, working with them can be a very rewarding, fulfilling, and a fun career path, no matter which one you choose.
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