@bald_biologist: Every on this boat thought i knew how to do shit because i am dressed like this. Sir i usually sit at a computer. I don’t know how to use a pipe wrench. #gradschool #marinebiology #stem #research

lauren ☭ :

as an archaeologist i do the opposite, i like to pretend i’m a serious academic but really i just spend a lot of time walking around and digging holes

user1734795368522 :

I’m an ornithologist and at this point the desk work feels more like larping, like let me outside

MoonJoy :

mine is exploratory geology so we spend multiple weeks tent camping in the desert pulling 16 hour days hiking up and down volcanoes and ridges and exploratory abandoned caves and mines. then take the rocks back to the lab to shoot at with lasers and giant saws amd hammers. then make spreadsheets (yay spreadsheets) then do it all again but on a boat or in Alaska this time. wading through mud, running from bears and men in the woods with guns.

lyn_mvrquez :

Permafrost microbial ecology 🤘🏻

lillipad.frog :

I am the mole (landscaper who’s getting their forestry degree so I can tell when yall are larping)

Claire :

Geology major

Scott :

Driving those pickup trucks had me feelin tuff i tell you h'wat

Sarah Nance :

environmental scientist

Photolysis :

I’ve been trying to fix the vacuum pump. Our drawer of rusty tools is being put to use. I feel so ✨mechanic✨

Maddi Wham :

The secret ofc is that the division between the two is thin and fragile

ella :

conservation corp life fr

Dykanite :

I know the Atlantis when I see it bro

iarmit :

well, since my field work partly consisted of digging holes (soil cores with a bucket auger), digging holes (soil cores in salt marshes which sucked 100x worse), and standing in flooded rain culvert (measuring flow to help build stage/discharge curve and collecting samples where I *was* the safety device 😅) it sure didn't feel like larping at times 😏

Maisie Roy-Musor 🌊🌿 :

I’m a marine biologist but 90% of my time is building and fixing plumbing, pumps, and HVAC systems lmao

Wumbology :

This is killing me 😂😂 it's so true

Soph ⁷ :

When I was getting my degree in agriculture I worked on a farm for about a year and got swamp ass daily in 100 degree heat so I think I earned being able to call myself a blue collar worker during that time 🫩😭

Remaissance :

Idk the pay is pretty shit

kayleegrce :

Me working for the USGS

Ash 🌻🫧 :

My fieldwork is watching people eat 😂

requireswings :

darklordhannah :

jokes on you, I quit my blue collar job for green collar so I can have both

shay :

No college degree and started off in conservation 8 hours a day backpack spraying and seed collecting at a nature preserve

sar.adair :

I recognized the Atlantis lab so quick, do they still have the ping pong table in there??